Shaheed El Hafed, January 15, 2026 (SPS) – The Saharawi National Commission for Human Rights (CONASADH) expressed its condemnation of the Moroccan occupation authorities’ decision to prevent a Spanish delegation from entering the occupied territories of Western Sahara, considering it a blatant attempt to isolate the occupied Sahrawi territories from any independent international monitoring.
In a statement, CONASADH expressed its full solidarity with the members of the Spanish delegation, renewing its condemnation of the unjust decision that prevented them from completing their visit and accessing the occupied Sahrawi cities.
CONASADH also denounced the continued and unpunished practice by the Moroccan occupying state of expelling and preventing international observers from visiting and entering the occupied territories of the Sahrawi Republic, where the repressive policy of the occupation continues to target every Sahrawi citizen who demands freedom and the right to life and independence.
The statement strongly criticized the silence of the European Union Commission and the Spanish government—originally complicit with the occupation—which has abandoned its legal and historical responsibilities toward the Sahrawi people.
The statement called on the international community (the Security Council, the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the European Parliament) to take urgent action to ensure respect for human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
CONASADH also demanded the creation of an independent UN mechanism to monitor and report on the human rights situation in Western Sahara, and to open the occupied territories to parliamentarians, observers, human rights organizations, and international media.
It further renewed its call on the International Committee of the Red Cross to assume its responsibilities within the framework of its legal mandates by pressuring the Moroccan state to respect human rights, to immediately and unconditionally release all Sahrawi political prisoners, and to reveal the fate of more than 400 disappeared Sahrawis.
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