During the recent visit of the UN Human Rights High Commission to Western Sahara and Morocco, the Moroccan government continued to intimidate human rights activists and commit flagrant human rights violations: On the afternoon of 15th April 2015, French citizen and human rights activist Marion Martin was expelled from Western...
A delegation of the UN High Commission on Human Rights is currently visiting the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara in order to investigate human rights abuses committed in the territory by Morocco. During the visit, the delegation is meeting with several Saharawi human rights organsations. (more…)
Graduates of the OCP Skills Programme have been protesting peacefully to demand their integration into the workforce of the phosphate industry in Western Sahara. This had been promised to them by the Moroccan governor in the al-jalil dkhil region in June 2011. 1,300 young people were supposed to be trained...
The journalist and member of Adala UK, Salha Butenguiza, calls upon the international community to fight to ensure she can freely go about her work in Western Sahara. Salha’s statement below is a translation from a video she made: “I...
During the first two weeks of March, Adala UK representatives participated in the 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, providing information to participants about the human rights abuses suffered by the Saharawi population. (more…)
The Saharawi activist, Embarek Daoudi was, on 9th March, on trial at the Criminal Court of First Instance in Goulimin (Southern Morocco). Daoudi entered the courtroom holding a Saharawi flag, chanting pro-self-determination slogans. In his statement, Daoudi told in detail how he along with several members of his family, were...
Sidi Ahmed Fadel, president of Adala UK, has been in Geneva since 2 March, along with 12 other members of civil society groups from the occupied territories, refugee camps and the Saharawi diaspora. Together they are reporting to the United...
On the 22nd of February Isabel Lourenço, European coordinator of Adala UK for the support of Saharawi prisoners travelled by airplane with Royal Air Maroc from Lisbon via Casablanca with final destination...
Isabel Lourenço, a Portuguese human rights activist, member of Adala UK, and international observer, accredited by the Western Sahara Foundation, was prevented by the Moroccan authorities to enter the occupied Western Sahara. Isabel Lourenço was planning to attend the trial of a Saharawi political prisoner, journalist from SADR TV, Mahmoud El...
There have now been two deaths of Sahrawi prisoners in the first 34 days of 2015; and nine in the space of two years. On 3 February 2015, the Sahrawi Chaihib Abdelhay died. He was detained in prison in Tiznit in Morocco, serving a two-year sentence. He died as a...