Activists, demonstrators and journalists have been detained without arrest warrants following peaceful demonstrations which have been taking place since Thursday 12th November 2020. Many more are at risk of arbitrary detention. The day after the demonstrations, the Moroccan authorities launched a campaign of arbitrary detentions towards Saharawis who had participated,...
Adala UK condemns the Moroccan military invasion of Western Sahara, the Green March on 6 November 1975 and the three party treaty of Madrid on 14 November 1975! On 16 October 1975, the ICJ said in its advisory opinion in (1975) volume 59 of the International Law Reports page 13,...
On 26 June 2020, the Moroccan authorities arrested Saharawi student, Ibrahim Kharbouch, at the police checkpoint at the north entrance to the city of Gulmim (400 km north of the border with Western Sahara). The arrest immediately followed a protest organised by a group of Saharawi students outside the Bouzkarn prison, in...
Adala UK is urging the UN to put pressure on the Moroccan government to release Saharawi prisoners based on the concerns of the spread of Covid-19 in Morocco. A statement published by the British NGO on Saturday 28 March outlined how the virus will spread easily through Moroccan prisons. "Currently there...
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, committed against...
The Saharawi activist Mahfouda El Fakir was arrested on the morning of Friday 15th November in the court of El Aaiún in occupied Western Sahara, where she was attending the trial of her cousin, Mansour Elmoussaoui who is 15 years old and who was sentenced to one month in prison....
Sidi Fadel from Adala UK recently attended a series of bilateral meetings with representatives of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 42nd session of the UNHRC. Sidi said of the meetings: "The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will take routine action against the Moroccan mission after...
Recent decision rendered by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recently concluded in their Opinion regarding the detention of Ndor Laaroussi (Opinion No. 23/2019), that Laaroussi, connected to the Saharawi Journalist organization Bentili Media Center, had been arrested, tortured, and...
Once again, Morocco has stopped an international observer from entering Western Sahara. Spanish lawyer Cristina Martinez was travelling to the capital El Aaiun in order to observe the trial of a group of young men who were detained for participating in a peaceful protest on 19th July. She was stopped...
Ali Saadouni is a former political prisoner and a prominent Saharawi human rights defender known for his membership in the “Coordination of those rejecting the Moroccan nationality”. Ali Saadouni was arrested on 11 April 2019. The arrest of Saadouni came in response to a demonstration held on Tuesday 10 April...