Through a new wave of arbitrary arrests and detentions, the Moroccan authorities continue their attack on the network of Saharawi journalists, aimed at preventing and intimidating journalists from doing their work: to document and report on human rights violations committed by the Moroccan authorities in the occupied territories of Western...
Nearly 200 people, among them Saharawis and those in solidarity with the Saharawi cause,demonstrated in front of the United Nations offices in Geneva (Switzerland) on Friday 16th March to protest against the blockade in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara and denounce the human rights violations committed against Saharawis. The...
Adala UK denounces ‘inhumane conditions’ in which dozens of Saharawi prisoners are living in Morocco
Two of a group of 22 Saharawi political prisoners have gone on hunger strike in protest against the cruel, inhumane and degrading conditions they are forced to endure in Moroccan prisons. Naama Asfari is continuing his hunger strike which he started on 27 February in the provincial Al Ayrat 1...
During the sessions, Adala UK met with various UN member states, NGOs, and UN representatives, as well as participating in a side-event about the ‘Applicability of International Humanitarian Law in Western Sahara’, on 28 February 2018. This event was organised by the Western Sahara Support Group in the Human Rights...
Historical and legal background In 1963, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) included Western Sahara in the list of Non Self-Governing Territories, to which UNGA Resolution 1514 (XXV) entitled “Declaration on the granting of Independence to colonial countries and peoples” applied. On 16 October 1975, the International Court of Justice released...
Mohamed Al-Ayoubi, a human rights activist, died today 21-02-2018 in a clinic in the capital city of Western Sahara Laayoune due to torture he suffered. He was one of the prisoners who has suffered most torture whilst in the custody of the Moroccan authorities. He suffered torture during his detention...
Saharawi Refugee Camps Norwegian Support Committee, Western Sahara Resource Watch and Western Sahara Campaign UK hold workshop in Boujdour Camp to discuss natural resources. Western Sahara Campaign UK is expecting the outcome of their court case in the European Court of Justice on 27 February. This court case calls into...
Portuguese President Mr. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stressed that a letter sent by Adala UK about the situation in Western Sahara deserves attention from the Government of the Portuguese Republic. His statement came in a response to a letter from Adala UK in Portugal, which demanded the release of Sahrawi...
During 2017, Adala UK recorded that the number of cases of people who had been denied entry to or been arbitrarily expelled from Western Sahara by Morocco had reached 76. These people included international observers, human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, those from the solidarity movement and those accused of 'disturbing...
“Friday 16th March, 11am, Place de les Nacions, Geneva” The Saharawi people would like to invite you to give greater visibility to their cause and break the information blockade imposed on the Western Sahara conflict by the Kingdom of Morocco and its allies. In 1963, Western Sahara, was included in...