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Solidarity with the Sahrawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons

Solidarity with the Sahrawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons

PCP expresses its solidarity with the Sahrawi activists detained by the Moroccan authorities in 2010, while participating in the Gdeim Izik protest camp, an action conducted by thousands of Sahrawis in defense of their rights in the territories of Western Sahara illegally occupied by Morocco.

After seven years, these Sahrawi activists are still detained and on trial, after the 2013 trial in a military court was considered null.

PCP will continue to intervene in defense of the rights, liberties and guarantees of the Sahrawi activists and for their release, including at the institutional level, as exemplified by the vote of solidarity with the Sahrawi political prisoners detained in Moroccan prisons recently approved n Parliament.

PCP reaffirms its solidarity with the legitimate struggle of the Sahrawi people for the end of the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco and for the respect of their inalienable right to self-determination, towards achieving their right to an independent and sovereign State, inseparable from their aspirations to liberty and social progress.

PCP considers that it is the Portuguese Government's obligation, according to the Portuguese Constitution, to contribute by its action to a just solution in Western Sahara, which necessarily implies fulfilling the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people, according to the respect of international law and the pertinent resolutions of the United Nations.