Arbitrary detention and intimidation are daily risks for human rights defenders in occupied Western Sahara, as has been documented in many cases by Adala UK in the last few years. Despite living under constant fear of intimidation, threat and attack, human rights defenders continue working with determination and bravery every...
Pistols and other devices which produce electric shocks have become widely used by the Moroccan police. They are used arbitrarily, even in very ‘low risk’ situations. Adala UK has frequently been reporting the indiscriminate use of metal bars, stones and truncheons by the Moroccan police but we have recently been...
The UN's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process all UN member states must take part in every four years as a review of their human rights record and an opportunity for other member states to make recommendations as to improvements the country under review can make. NGOs take part...
A Moroccan police patrol arrested 17 year old Souayah Dahi on the Sharif Radi Avenue in the Zemla neighbourhood in the capital of Western Sahara due to his participation in a protest in solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners held in Moroccan prisons. Dahi has been punished for exercising his...
We are joining forces with Western Sahara Action Forum (WSAF) and the global solidarity movement to write to the UN Security Council ahead of the annual vote to renew MINURSO at the end of April. See below for the call to action from WSAF: CRACKS OPENING IN MOROCCO'S POSITION ON...
Every day, and in countless ways, Sahrawi children’s rights are violated by the Moroccan forces in Western Sahara. None of the children who find themselves in the vicinity of the regular peaceful demonstrations that take place in the Occupied Territories to demand the Sahrawis’ right to self-determination, is ever to...
Last Thursday 23 March, a group of unemployed individuals demonstrated peacefully in Laayoune, in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara. In view of the brutal repression with which the Moroccan forces responded to the demonstrators, Adala UK demands that the Moroccan authorities carry out complete, impartial and independent investigation of...
Salah Labsir is from the city of Smara in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. His family still lives there. Between 2005 – 2013 he worked as a media correspondent. At the same time, he actively participated in peaceful demonstrations for the self-determination of Western Sahara. His political opinions are...
The first-ever side-event on Western Sahara was hosted by the Support Group on Western Sahara on Wednesday 1st March 2017 during the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. The meeting was moderated by Mr Gianfranco Fattorini of the American Association of Jurists (AAJ). The Namibian Ambassador, Sabine Böhlke-Müller,...
During his visit to Morocco and Western Sahara in September 2012, Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, signalled that public prosecutors and judges rarely investigate complaints which allege the use of torture to obtain evidence or confessions during the early stages of interrogations. (more…)