As a human rights organisation committed to the promotion and protection of international human rights and humanitarian law, Adala UK expresses deep concern over recent attempts to mischaracterise the Polisario Front as a terrorist organisation. Such allegations, including those published in The Telegraph, represent a dangerous form of disinformation that not only...
Adala UK expresses its deep concern over the violent repression of Sahrawi students at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco, and strongly condemns the Moroccan authorities’ continued use of academic institutions as instruments of political persecution and intimidation. On 16 June 2025, members of the Moroccan security forces—both in uniform...
Adala UK welcomes the strong and timely statement by Mary Lawlor, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressing deep concern over the ongoing violence and repression targeting Sahrawi human rights defenders in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. On Friday, Lawlor took to social media...
Adala UK expresses deep concern over the continued illegal exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara by the Moroccan occupying power and the worsening humanitarian situation facing Saharawi refugees. Recent developments underscore a dual injustice: the enrichment of Morocco and foreign actors through extractive activities in the occupied territory, and...
Adala UK today calls on the international community to take immediate and effective action to end the use of torture in Western Sahara and to ensure justice and reparations for its victims. The appeal comes on 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a day that marks the entry into...
The health and dignity of Sahrawi political prisoners continue to be systematically undermined by Moroccan prison authorities, as evidenced by a recent and deeply troubling incident involving Abdallah El Wali Lakfawni, a member of the Gdeim Izik group currently held in Kenitra Central Prison. According to informations received on Friday, 20 June 2025, Mr. Lakfawni...
Adala UK – June 2025 Adala UK expresses grave concern over the worsening situation of Saharawis with disabilities living under Moroccan occupation in the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara. Despite Morocco’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2009, persons with disabilities of Saharawi origin...
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...
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...
Historical and legal background In 1963, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) included Western Sahara in the list of Non Self-Governing Territories, to which UNGA Resolution 1514 (XXV) entitled “Declaration on the granting of Independence to colonial countries and peoples” applied. On 16 October 1975, the International Court of Justice released...