Dear Mr Hammond, We are writing to you from Adala UK, a UK-based NGO, campaigning for human rights in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. For over two years, we have been highlighting numerous cases of human rights violations in Western Sahara, perpetrated by the...
By Sidi Ahmed Abdala Following the death of the Saharawi activist and political prisoner, Hasana El Wali, due to medical negligence whilst in prison, AdalaUK urges that the Moroccan occupation immediately and unconditionally frees all 74 political prisoners who have been registered...
Amnesty International has published an urgent action for the seven men who were tortured in El Aiun's Black Prison and who are now on hunger strike, as previously reported by Adala UK. Please take action here.
On 17th September 2014, the Moroccan authorities banned a planned demonstration to demand the release of Saharawi political prisoners, a mechanism to monitor human rights violations in Western Sahara and the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. Members of the Moroccan forces, both in uniform and plain clothes, surrounded the area...
On 17th September 2014, seven Saharawi political prisoners (Abdslam Lomadi, Abdlakrim Boshalga, Alyien Moussaoui, Mahmud lhaisan, Abdel Motalib Srir, Mohamed Babir, Abd lfatah Dalal) were tortured for several hours and in front of all other prisoners and prison guards in the courtyard of El Aiun’s ‘Black Prison’. Subsequently, the prisoners...
By Sidi Ahmed Abdala Independent journalism in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara, the country with the worst freedom of press record in the region, has become one of the most dangerous professions. The Moroccan occupying forces maintain a monopoly on TV, radio,...
By Sidi Ahmed Abdala On 17 July 2014, Housine Laamash told members of AdalaUK that he was tortured whilst in police custody in the occupied city of Boujduir in Western Sahara. He explained how he had been threatened with rape and...
On the night of Saturday 12 July 2014, the Moroccan army killed the young Saharawi Brahim Bada Uald Taher in Um Drayga, 360km south east of El Aiún. Brahaim was travelling by...
Adala UK President, Sidahmed Mesca, has spent the last five months in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara. With violent interventions against peaceful demonstrations continuing, he has observed and investigated many cases of human rights violations during this time. In the last...
Dozens of activists, demonstrators and journalists have been detained without arrest warrants following peaceful demonstrations on 30th June 2014 in El Aiun. Many more are at risk of arbitrary detention. Two days after the demonstrations, the Moroccan authorities launched a campaign of arbitrary detentions...