AdalaUK believes that the time has come for the Moroccan authorities to cease their repression of Saharawi demonstrations which demand the right of self-determination in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. The Saharawi people have the right to freely express their views and to demonstrate peaceably without running the risk...
Members of AdalaUK visited Mohamed at home where he relayed the incident, explaining how he was detained at 12 noon on 12th March 2014 by Moroccan plain clothes police officers driving a Toyota Prado, registration 127 416 having been forced to get out...
The 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,...
Adala UK were pleased to attend a public meeting called by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Western Sahara to discuss the human rights situation in the occupied territories. The meeting took place in Portcullis House, Westminster on Tuesday 25th February and was hosted by Mark Williams MP, the APPG Secretary....
A British Delegation visited the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara from 13-16th February 2014, showing the British people’s solidarity with the people of Western Sahara. The delegation was organized by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Western Sahara and was made up of two MPS, Jeremy Corbyn and Mark Williams;...
Adala UK participated in an event entitled “Together for the extension of MINURSO” in El Aiun, Western Sahara, organized by families of the disappeared, in support of the international campaign for the broadening of the MINURSO mandate to include human rights...
21/01/2014: Moroccan security forces intervened violently against a peaceful demonstration organised by "OCP", "SKILLS", "NAHDA" and "ALAMAL”, groups of unemployed Saharawi students, in El Aiun. The demonstrators were chanting slogans such as “Our natural resources can employ us”, “Stop human rights...
15/01/2014: The Saharawi population took to the streets and peacefully demonstrated for the integration of a mechanism to monitor human rights into Minurso’s (the UN mission for a referendum in Western Sahara) mandate. Protests took place in Smara Street, one of the main streets of the occupied capital city of...
On 10th December, the International Day of Human Rights and the first anniversary of its being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the European Union (EU) renewed its fishing treaty with Morocco. The EU negotiated the treaty with Morocco, turning a blind eye to the serious and systematic human rights violations perpetrated...
The Committee of Families of the Gdeim Izik Political Prisoners reports that the Sale 1 Prison administration have today moved the political prisoner LAROUSSI ABDELJALIL to Soussi 2 Hospital. His condition is life-threatening and he has been admitted to hospital alongside...