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Africa: North
Morocco charges youths over riots
2005-05-30
Moroccan authorities have charged 33 youths for taking part in recent riots in the main city of the territory of Western Sahara. Provincial Governor Mohamed El Rharabi said in the city of Laayoune on Sunday the 33 youths would be tried for criminal conspiracy, disturbing public order and damage to public property during the riots, which residents and local reporters said took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. "The riots had been organised with a political agenda," El Rharabi said.

Police were looking for other suspects for burning Moroccan flags and for brandishing flags of the breakaway Algerian-backed Polisario Front. The riots were triggered by the transfer of a convict from a jail in Laayoune to one in Morocco, the governor said. The inmate, sentenced two years ago on charges including drug trafficking and insulting the monarchy, has rejected the verdict, saying he was not a Moroccan national and asked to be transferred to Polisario camps in Algeria, legal sources said.
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