On the 22nd of February Isabel Lourenço, European coordinator of Adala UK for the support of Saharawi prisoners travelled by airplane with Royal Air Maroc from Lisbon via Casablanca with final destination...
Isabel Lourenço, a Portuguese human rights activist, member of Adala UK, and international observer, accredited by the Western Sahara Foundation, was prevented by the Moroccan authorities to enter the occupied Western Sahara. Isabel Lourenço was planning to attend the trial of a Saharawi political prisoner, journalist from SADR TV, Mahmoud El...
There have now been two deaths of Sahrawi prisoners in the first 34 days of 2015; and nine in the space of two years. On 3 February 2015, the Sahrawi Chaihib Abdelhay died. He was detained in prison in Tiznit in Morocco, serving a two-year sentence. He died as a...
On 12 and 13 February, Adala UK presented its recent reports regarding the situation in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara to the UN in Geneva. The reports concerned the everyday reality of Sahrawi children under the occupation and the violation of their rights by the Moroccan authorities, as well...
Adala UK has had contact with the family of Mohamed Lamin Haidala, the recently deceased 21-year old Sahrawi. Mohamed Lamin was studying to be a plumber in the occupied city of El Aaiun; he was the son of Abdallahi Haidala and Takbar Hadi and lived with his maternal grandparents in...