Four Moroccan police officers detained 16 year old Ayub Garmat (DOB: 16.01.1998) and took him by car (a Toyota Prado) from the city centre to the edge of the Wad Sagia lake, approximately 4km from El Aiún. They brutally beat...
AdalaUK today condemns the harsh repression unleashed against peaceable demonstrations in El Aiún, the occupied capital of Western Sahara. Members of AdalaUK were eye witnesses on 6 June to the Moroccan police using excessive force to break up a demonstration, including throwing stones, using metal truncheons, sticks, abusive language and...
The political prisoner Yahia Mohamed el Hafed has been on hunger strike for 42 days now. The penitentiary administration has not intervened in order to save his life or check his health which has now reached a critical state. Adala UK...
On 30 May, 14 year old Mahmoud El Mousaoui was detained by a group of uniformed and plain clothes Moroccan police officers in the Maatala neighbourhood in El Aiún, Western Sahara. He was brutally attacked...
A violent intervention by Moroccan occupation authorities has taken place against a group of Saharawis who were supporting the ex-political prisoner Sidi Mohamed Aloat, President of the Association of Disabled People in Western Sahara. He and a number...
On 26th May 2014, the Court of Appeal in Agadir, Morocco, imposed a 5 year prison sentence on Elhaiba Moulay Kaiss, following an initial 1 year sentence on 20th March 2014, according to his family. Elhaiba Moulay Kaiss had been detained on 7th October 2013 in...
Following an unfair trial at the court of appeal in Agadir, Morocco, a 4-year prison sentence was imposed on the Saharawi political prisoner Adbalah Boukiod (28). Prior to his trial, Adbalah had spent seven months in detention in Ait Melloul prison in Agadir. ...
Adala UK strongly condemns the means used by the Moroccan police to suppress two peaceable demonstrations in El Aiun on 15th and 22nd May. The violent interventions caused dozens of injuries, some...
Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons face the prospect of a slow, painful death given the deliberate medical negligence enforced by the prison authorities. Most detainees suffer severe health issues given...
Human rights activist and café owner Mahmod Hadad is in a serious state after being beaten by Moroccan police in El Aiun, on 8th May 2014. He was in his café on Smara Street, when two Moroccan police cars arrived and uniformed and plain clothes...