Madrid – Amnesty International asked on Wednesday the Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez, who is expected to pay a visit to Morocco on Friday, to discuss the human rights situation in the Sahara and in the Rif with Rabat.
The London-based human rights association has urged the minister to tackle the issue of freedom of speech and expression in Morocco with the Moroccan authorities, EFE reported.
In the same note, Amnesty International urged Morocco «to put an end of human rights violations against political activists, defenders and journalists». It has also asked Morocco to «stop the crackdown on activists and to immediately end prosecuting them for apparent political reasons».
The head of Amnesty International in Spain, Olatz Cacho, has also added that Morocco «violates human rights, especially when it comes to freedom of expression, women’s rights and those of the LGBT community, migrants and refugees».
The NGO also called on the two sides to remove barbed wire fences at the borders of Ceuta and Melilla.
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Spain is not in any position to guide any country towards human rights. Has amnesty international seen the heavy-hand exercised by Spain in Catalonia against its self-determination. Catalonians have been dragged out of polling stations by their hair, flung down flights of stairs too, captured and incarcerated like runaway slaves; the leaders of independence fled the country and are being chased by arrest warrants. Amnesty International should show some respect for the Catalonian wounded before they award Spain a teacher’s license.
Moreover, Spain and Europe are the efficient cause of Rabat’s tyrannical anti-migration measures against sub-Saharan migrants entering the kingdom on route to Europe. Spain pays Morocco money to capture Black people (mostly) and keep them from reaching Spanish territory. The implicit request is for Morocco to disregard the human rights of these African migrants so as to be more effective in keeping the out of Spain.