The authorities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a new health emergency decree-law, which restricted freedoms of movement, expression and assembly, and used it to prosecute people for criticizing the government’s handling of the crisis or for breaking the emergency measures. Sahrawi human...

Moroccan authorities should make sure that their investigation into a man’s unlawful death in police custody on 6 October 2022, is impartial and thorough. They should hold accountable, in a fair trial, the police officers that tortured the victim and did not provide him with adequate medical care....

This statement focuses on concerns raised in Amnesty International’s submission to the Committee about Morocco’s failure to comply with its obligations under the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families during the...

Amnesty International Oral Statement to the UN Human Rights Council at their 52nd Session. 27 February – 4 April 2023. Item 6: Consideration of UPR reports: Morocco and Western Sahara

Amnesty International is deeply concerned at the treatment of migrants and refugees in the Ceuta-Melilla border region by both Spanish and Moroccan police and border officials and the ongoing risk they face of serious violations of their human rights in that location.

We, the undersigned human rights organisations, write to express our grave concern for the fate of Saudi national Hassan al-Rabea and seek clarification as to why your government approved his extradition to Saudi Arabia.

On 24 June 2022, the deadliest incident ever recorded at the Melilla border between Morocco and Spain left at least 37 Black people dead and 77 more missing. The victims, refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa seeking safety, were met with prolonged and unlawful use of force by Moroccan and...

Poster for Nasser Zefzafi’s Write for Rights campaign

Case card for Nasser Zefzafi’s Write for Rights campaign

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 41st session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November 2022. The countries covered are Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Ecuador, Finland, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland,...

With this joint letter (in English, French and Arabic), a coalition of 45 human rights NGOs calls on the Moroccan authorities to cancel the extradition proceedings against the Uyghur activist Yidiresi Aishan, also known as Idris Hasan, and release him from his year-long detention.

On 15 and 16 April 2022, the Moroccan authorities beat and injured at least five women, who have participated in peaceful protests and showed support for prominent Sahrawi activist, Sultana Khaya, who has been under a de facto house arrest since November 2020 for her activism in favour of Western...

Amnesty International welcomes this opportunity to address the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) on the occasion of its 71st ordinary session. Almost a year ago, as part of the Pegasus Project , media outlets, with the technical partnership of Amnesty...