MADRID, Aug 14 — Save the Children today urged Spain to halt the repatriation to Morocco of hundreds of unaccompanied minors who were among thousands of migrants who crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta three months ago. The international NGO accused Madrid of failing to protect the rights...
MADRID, Aug 14 — Save the Children today urged Spain to halt the repatriation to Morocco of hundreds of unaccompanied minors who were among thousands of migrants who crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta three months ago.Up to 10,000 migrants flooded across the border in North Africa into Ceuta over several days in May as Moroccan border guards stood aside.
This was widely seen as retaliation for Spain’s decision to host Brahim Ghali, leader of the Polisario Front, which has for decades fought Morocco for the independence of Western Sahara, for medical treatment.“Repatriations from Ceuta continue today,” Save the Children posted on Twitter Saturday.The interior ministry has not officially announced the repatriations, and was not immediately available when contacted by AFP.
Ione Belarra, leader of the far-left Podemos, the junior member of Spain”s ruling coalition, also criticised the transfers in a letter to Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska. “We have been informed by children’s organisations on the ground that the repatriation of minors has begun,” she wrote in the letter published in online daily El Confidencial.
She said that the operation might be taking place “without strict observance” of various Spanish and international laws. — AFP
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