As of August 2019, the Spanish government started to apply the “border procedure” for asylum applications in its enclaves at the Spanish-Moroccan border. The new practice can undermine access to asylum procedures and comes amid reports of further push-backs also...
Morocco has said it is to deport 141 migrants who were arrested on Sunday, following an attempt by up to 300 people to enter Spain by crossing the border fence at the Moroccan enclave of Melilla. The attempt resulted in the death of one man who suffered a heart...
34 people, including 2 children, have been found dead after a ship which was carrying approximately 60 refugees came into distress in the early hours of Sunday morning. The people on board called the Coordination Center for Maritime Rescue as the ship started to sink...
By Jon Sebastian Rodriguez Forrest, Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left, who visited Melilla and Nador with a parliamentary delegation at the end of 2017 The fences encircling the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the only...
On 3 October 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Spain violated the prohibition of collective expulsion (Article 4 Protocol 4) and the right to an effective remedy (Article 13 ECHR) on a case related to the return to Morocco of migrants who had...