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SPAIN-MOROCCO: Press release of Jus Cogens (Advocates) (Christophe Marchand, Dounia Alamat): Ali Aarrass has been tortured
01 February 2011
SPAIN-MOROCCO: Press release of Jus Cogens (Advocates) (Christophe Marchand, Dounia Alamat): Ali Aarrass has been tortured (pdf):
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Since Spain’s extradition of Ali Aarrass to Morocco contrary to the suspension request of the UN Human Rights Committee, the Belgian-Moroccan Aarrass has been tortured in Morocco.
Ali Aarrass is Belgian-Moroccan. He is Moroccan only by virtue of the fact that he had to obtain an identity card to travel. Ali Aarrass was born in the Spanish enclave of Melilla. He has never lived in Morocco and has no effective ties with that country. He has lived in Belgium for 28 years, he did his military service there, and it was there he developed a local business and deep attachments."