RABAT: A Moroccan rights group on Thursday slammed the harsh treatment and expulsion of illegal sub-Saharan immigrants, after hundreds were kicked out of Morocco in a swoop that began earlier this week.
“The human rights violations against immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa have become systematic in our country,” the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH) said.“The state is responsible for the safety and security of the migrants, but instead they are subjected to beatings, both by the authorities and by hired thugs, or sent to the Algerian border,” added Morocco’s largest rights group. It said those expelled included pregnant women and small children, and warned that the “continuing attacks” on the African immigrants were “feeding racism and encouraging the citizens of Morocco to turn against them.” The Moroccan authorities have clamped down on unregulated immigrants in recent days, with the AMDH saying 35 of them were expelled overnight on Wednesday from town of Oujda.On Monday some 200 sub-Saharans were expelled from the country, most of them from the northern towns of Tetouan and Nador.
Source : Agence France-Presse
