On 11 April 2021, the British citizen Mohamed Ajdefi was subjected to physical torture and arrested inside the headquarters of the Moroccan police commission in El-Aaiún. This had been preceded by officers enquiring as to the reasons for his brother, El-Zein Ajdefi, and his family being present at the police...
It is somewhat ironic that people and organisations working on human rights, whose role is to report human rights violations in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara, are those who find themselves at risk and without protection. The case of the human rights defender Sultana Khaya is a clear example of...
The USA's recent recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the occupied territory of Western Sahara violates international law and long-standing treaties. All countries must stand against this new and unprecedented US stance, especially since Western Sahara, as outlined by numerous UN resolutions, is still considered a territory awaiting decolonisation by its...
Activists, demonstrators and journalists have been detained without arrest warrants following peaceful demonstrations which have been taking place since Thursday 12th November 2020. Many more are at risk of arbitrary detention. The day after the demonstrations, the Moroccan authorities launched a campaign of arbitrary detentions towards Saharawis who had participated,...
Adala UK condemns the Moroccan military invasion of Western Sahara, the Green March on 6 November 1975 and the three party treaty of Madrid on 14 November 1975! On 16 October 1975, the ICJ said in its advisory opinion in (1975) volume 59 of the International Law Reports page 13,...
On 26 June 2020, the Moroccan authorities arrested Saharawi student, Ibrahim Kharbouch, at the police checkpoint at the north entrance to the city of Gulmim (400 km north of the border with Western Sahara). The arrest immediately followed a protest organised by a group of Saharawi students outside the Bouzkarn prison, in...
Adala UK is urging the UN to put pressure on the Moroccan government to release Saharawi prisoners based on the concerns of the spread of Covid-19 in Morocco. A statement published by the British NGO on Saturday 28 March outlined how the virus will spread easily through Moroccan prisons. "Currently there...
8th March is celebrated around the world as International Women’s Day, recognising the important role women play in the development of our societies.The Saharawi woman celebrates this day under the constant threat of attacks on her physical integrity, insults, sexual assault, kidnap, ridicule, beatings and other forms of humiliation, committed against...
The Saharawi activist Mahfouda El Fakir was arrested on the morning of Friday 15th November in the court of El Aaiún in occupied Western Sahara, where she was attending the trial of her cousin, Mansour Elmoussaoui who is 15 years old and who was sentenced to one month in prison....
Sidi Fadel from Adala UK recently attended a series of bilateral meetings with representatives of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 42nd session of the UNHRC. Sidi said of the meetings: "The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will take routine action against the Moroccan mission after...