Detainees in Morocco subjected to torture | The New Age Online

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Detainees in Morocco subjected to torture | The New Age Online: "More than 150 people remain in detention following last month's deadly Moroccan raid on a Western Sahara squatter camp, and some have been subjected to torture, a rights group said on Friday.

'Some 156 people, including four women, are currently detained - 147 in Laayoune, and nine at Sale, near Rabat, waiting to appear before a military tribunal,' said the Moroccan Association for Human Rights in a report. 'Detainees have been subjected to torture, and inhumane and degrading treatment: beatings, insults, slander ... and threat of rape.'

Moroccan police were investigating crimes such as destruction of public property or violence against security forces.
Morocco said 11 security officers and at least two civilians were killed in the November 8 raid on the camp near the major city of Laayoune, while the Western Sahata's separatist Polisario Front said the toll was much higher.

The Moroccan parliament set up a commission in late November to investigate events after the dismantling of the camp.
The rights organisation called on Rabat to establish a 'neutral and honest' enquiry."