MELILLA, Spain (AP) — Activists in Morocco who have twice blockaded food shipments into a Spanish enclave in the last week to protest alleged abuses by border police have agreed to suspend their demonstrations until September, when the holy Islamic month of Ramadan ends, a merchants association said.
The deal means a temporary end to the on-and-off commercial blockade of Melilla, a North African city of 70,000 people which Morocco calls "occupied" territory. The latest protest Wednesday halted shipments of perishable food into Melilla.
But the blockades could resume if the problems that triggered it — alleged brutality and racism by Spanish border police against Moroccans …
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