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Africa: North |
Morocco charges youths over riots |
2005-05-30 |
![]() 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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