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...
On 12 and 13 February, Adala UK presented its recent reports regarding the situation in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara to the UN in Geneva. The reports concerned the everyday reality of Sahrawi children under the occupation and the violation of their rights by the Moroccan authorities, as well...
Adala UK has had contact with the family of Mohamed Lamin Haidala, the recently deceased 21-year old Sahrawi. Mohamed Lamin was studying to be a plumber in the occupied city of El Aaiun; he was the son of Abdallahi Haidala and Takbar Hadi and lived with his maternal grandparents in...
On 26th January, The British Labour Party presented its proposed foreign policy and ‘internationalist vision’, to be implemented should the party win the upcoming general election in May, to representatives of UK NGOs. The meeting, entitled "One Nation, One World: The next chapter in the international history of the Labour Party", involved...
Adala UK welcomes an awareness campaign, initiated by Portuguese journalists, focusing on the Saharawi journalist and political prisoner Mahmoud El Haisan, who is currently serving an 18 month prison sentence in El Aiun’s Black Prison. The campaign calls on journalists worldwide to demonstrate...
Hassana Aalia (26) is a founder member of the ‘Equipo Medio’, a group of young Saharawi journalist working in secrecy in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara, and risk their lives to produce images and news of the human rights violations suffered by Saharawis...
To the Board of Crans Montana Forum, Adala UK is a British NGO with its headquarters in London and members in several European countries, North America, South America and Africa. Adala UK aims to raise awareness of the conflict and of human rights violations in Western Sahara. We work with...