Adala UK is deeply alarmed by the continued mistreatment of Saharawi student and political prisoner Hussein Bachir Amadour, currently held in Bouzkarn Prison, Morocco, under degrading and unlawful conditions. This comes despite a recent legal opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) affirming the illegality of...
Adala UK has addressed a letter to the Rt Hon David Lammy MP, the newly appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, in response to the UK government’s recent joint communiqué with Morocco. In this statement, the UK expressed support for Morocco’s 2007 autonomy plan as the...
Adala UK strongly condemns the ongoing campaign of intimidation and racial discrimination waged by Moroccan intelligence services against the families of Saharawi prisoners from the Gdeim Izik group. These repressive measures appear to be a direct reprisal against the families’ peaceful demands for the release of their arbitrarily detained loved...
London, 17 May 2025 — Adala UK strongly condemns the deadly drone strike carried out by Moroccan occupation forces on 16 May 2025, which targeted a civilian vehicle in Kuerziz, an area east of the Moroccan military wall in Western Sahara. The attack resulted in the deaths of two unarmed Mauritanian civilians and represents a grave violation of...
The British NGO stated that "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on 10 December, 1948, and has since been celebrated globally as Human Rights Day. Adala UK takes this opportunity to reflect on the reality of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, where the Moroccan...
Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais des Nations 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Dear Special Rapporteur, Re: Saharawi citizen murdered in a Moroccan prison in occupied territory of Western Sahara Dr. Alice Jill...
Dear Members of the UN Human Rights Council, Adala UK and the other signatory organisations to this letter want to express our deep concern and urge you as member countries of the UN and the Human Rights Council to vote against Morocco's candidacy for the presidency of the Council for...
Adala UKc/o 9 Rye Hill Park LondonSE15 3JN Oxford English Academy 154 Cumnor RoadBoars HillOxfordOX1 5JR Dear Ben Mowlah and Karen Pethick,I am writing on behalf of Adala UK. We are a UK-based NGO. We gather testimonies and evidence of human rights violations in Western Sahara in order to raise...
A delegation of women from the ‘Just Visit Western Sahara’ initiative was arrested on Monday 23 May 2022 in Western Sahara by the Moroccan authorities in El Aaiún airport. The American delegation were invited by the Khaya sisters who have been subject to a brutal long-term siege of their home in the city. The American delegation included three women: Adrienne Kinne, former president of Veterans for Peace, Wynd Kaufmyn, a community college teacher and Laksana Peters, a retired teacher retired. 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, committed against...