During his visit to the Kingdom of Morocco and Western Sahara in September 2012, Juan M\u00e9ndez, UN Special
\nRapporteur on Torture, signaled that public prosecutors and judges rarely investigate complaints which allege the use of
\ntorture to obtain evidence or confessions during the early stages of interrogations.
\nJuan M\u00e9ndez stated: \u201cThe system for lodging complaints of acts of torture and maltreatment and for investigating,
\nprosecuting and punishing those responsible for such acts, seems to only exist in law (bar very few exceptions)\u2026we
\nneed to overcome this abyss between law and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
AdalaUK, by means of one of its principal objectives, which is to raise awareness of the critical situation in which During his visit to the Kingdom of Morocco and Western Sahara in September 2012, Juan M\u00e9ndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, signaled 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. Juan M\u00e9ndez stated: \u201cThe system for lodging complaints of acts of torture and maltreatment and for investigating, prosecuting and punishing those responsible for such acts, seems to only exist in law (bar very few exceptions)\u2026we need to overcome this abyss between law and practice.\u201d AdalaUK, by means of one of its principal objectives, which is to raise awareness of the critical situation in which Saharawis are living and the constant human rights violations taking place in Western Sahara, presents this written contribution on torture, on the part of the Kingdom of Morocco which continues to use torture despite having signed and ratified the Convention Against Torture and although the Moroccan Constitution and Moroccan law prohibits theuse of torture…READ FULL STATMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[119,116,115,125,101,106,105,104,102,112,109,108,114,111,126,127,123,122,124,103,118,110,117,99,100,113,107,120,98,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSaharawis are living and the constant human rights violations taking place in Western Sahara, presents this written
\ncontribution on torture, on the part of the Kingdom of Morocco which continues to use torture despite having signed
\nand ratified the Convention Against Torture and although the Moroccan Constitution and Moroccan law prohibits theuse of torture…READ FULL STATMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"