The General Council of Spanish Lawyers has requested the Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, to issue a written complaint to Morocco for expel two lawyers from Western Sahara, «without there being any kind of cause that justifies it». The Spanish lawyers Inés Miranda and Lola Travieso, from the International Association of Jurists for Western Sahara, have denounced their expulsion this Saturday from Laayoune where they were going to carry out a mission to verify the situation of human rights in this territory. In this way, the Lawyers urge Sánchez to show her disagreement with this expulsion that she considers “irregular and unjustified.”
The jurists Inés Miranda and Lola Travieso were traveling on a flight from the Canary Islands to El Aaiún on an observation mission endorsed by the Spanish Lawyers themselves. Upon reaching Saharawi soil, the Moroccan forces have denied them the right to leave the plane. A situation that the Spanish Foreign Lawy has already reported through a letter in which considers that the Ministry should formulate a written complaint before the Moroccan authorities for preventing the access of the two lawyers.
La Abogacía española denuncia la expulsión de dos de sus juristas del Sáhara Occidental
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— El Periódico de España (@ElPeriodico_Esp) June 3, 2023
“The Moroccan forces have forcibly prevented us from getting off the plane. I have only been able to go down three steps and we had to go back. We were going to meet with different human rights bodies and with the relatives of Saharawi political prisoners,” Inés Miranda told Agencia Efe.
Both lawyers confirm that reported on their trip to the Presidency of the Government; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and different Spanish instances. Now, they have warned the competent authorities that, as jurists, they are going to file a complaint and “demand that the Spanish government pronounce on Morocco’s attitude towards human rights observers” in Western Sahara.
The two lawyers have identified themselves as members of the International Association of Jurists for Western Sahara and have shown the Moroccan gendarmes their letters of introduction, but “they have not received any other response,” says Miranda, “other than the immediate expulsion from the Saharan territory.”
The Legal Profession, which has reiterated its support for the work of this association of jurists, whose mission was to “denounce the violation of human rights” in the former Spanish colony, has considered that the department of José Manuel Albares should formulate a written complaint to Morocco for preventing them from entering.
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