Human Rights Group Condemns Alleged Detention of Migrants in Unsafe Building in Morocco

In a message posted on Facebook and taken up by the local press in Ceuta, there is talk of the imprisonment of several migrants in a dilapidated building, located on the national road, between the towns of Fnideq and Tangier. The Association claims that elements of the auxiliary forces and gendarmes had supervised these arrests and detentions.

For the Observatory, these arbitrary detentions are contrary to the most basic human rights, all the more so as they are not carried out under the supervision of a judicial authority, as provided for in the international agreements signed by Morocco.

According to the same source, the illegal migrants were arrested in the woods, not far from the barrier separating Morocco from Ceuta, as they were trying to reach the other side of the border. Accused of "sabotage", they could be transferred to the south of the country.

The Association recalls that the Moroccan authorities had already closed this same building in April, following complaints from NGOs. But it has been reopened since then, without any notable improvement in the reception conditions of the migrants.