Save The Children Slams Spain Over Repatriation Of Minors
Umer Jamshaid Published August 15, 2021 | 12:50 AM
Madrid, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Aug, 2021 ) :Save the Children on Saturday 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 of the children.
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, a movement demanding Western Sahara be independent from Morocco, for medical treatment.
Spain on Friday began sending back more than 700 unaccompanied minors to Morocco.
"Repatriations from Ceuta continue today," Save the Children posted on Twitter Saturday.
The NGO called "for an end" to these. "Spain is not guaranteeing the protection of minors," it said.
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.
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