Morocco Sentences Saharawi Activist to Five Months for Protesting with Western Sahara flags – Nushatta Foundation

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This is an old photo of Ali Saadouni. 
The scars of injuries on his face are as result 
of the violence at the hands of Moroccan police.
Nushatta Foundation Staff
Fri, 14th June, 2019
 
 Under the pretext of false charges of drug possession and violence against a policeman, a Western Sahara independence activist was handed down five months by the Court of Appeals in the city of El-Aaiùn; one of the biggest cities in Western Sahara, which is the last country struggling with decolonization in Africa.
  
The unfair final sentence of five months was rendered yesterday, Thursday,the 13th of June, 2019, against activist Ali Bou Jamma Saadouni, by Moroccan authorities over the occupied territories, as retribution for his non-violent political activism.
 
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