The 1951 Refugee Convention, signed and ratified by Spain in 1978, sets forward the right to seek international protection. The right to seek asylum is similarly stipulated in the Declaration of Human Rights Article 14, stating that "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum...
Mbarek Daoudi, a well-known Saharawi human rights defender, was arrested, tortured and imprisoned in September 2013. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded in Opinion No. 60/2018 that the arrest and detention of Mbarek Daoudi was arbitrary, breaching Articles 9, 14, 19 and 26 of the ICCPR, and Articles...
Brussels – The President of British NGO Adala UK, Sidi Fadel, concluded a visit to Belgium last week where he met with MEPs from across the political spectrum. During these meetings he discussed the ruling of the ECJ that invalidated the trade agreement between Morocco and the EU, stating it...
The creation of a siege, a wave of arrests, police violence, demonstrations and a media blockade. The UN Special Envoy, Horst Khöler, recently visited the region of Western Sahara in order to gain a deeper understanding of the conflict. The Special Envoy, following a visit to the Saharawi Refugee camps...
Through a new wave of arbitrary arrests and detentions, the Moroccan authorities continue their attack on the network of Saharawi journalists, aimed at preventing and intimidating journalists from doing their work: to document and report on human rights violations committed by the Moroccan authorities in the occupied territories of Western...
Nearly 200 people, among them Saharawis and those in solidarity with the Saharawi cause,demonstrated in front of the United Nations offices in Geneva (Switzerland) on Friday 16th March to protest against the blockade in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara and denounce the human rights violations committed against Saharawis. The...
Two of a group of 22 Saharawi political prisoners have gone on hunger strike in protest against the cruel, inhumane and degrading conditions they are forced to endure in Moroccan prisons. Naama Asfari is continuing his hunger strike which he started on 27 February in the provincial Al Ayrat 1...
During the sessions, Adala UK met with various UN member states, NGOs, and UN representatives, as well as participating in a side-event about the ‘Applicability of International Humanitarian Law in Western Sahara’, on 28 February 2018. This event was organised by the Western Sahara Support Group in the Human Rights...
Mohamed Al-Ayoubi, a human rights activist, died today 21-02-2018 in a clinic in the capital city of Western Sahara Laayoune due to torture he suffered. He was one of the prisoners who has suffered most torture whilst in the custody of the Moroccan authorities. He suffered torture during his detention...
Portuguese President Mr. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stressed that a letter sent by Adala UK about the situation in Western Sahara deserves attention from the Government of the Portuguese Republic. His statement came in a response to a letter from Adala UK in Portugal, which demanded the release of Sahrawi...