Spain: Failure to protect the rights of migrants – Ceuta and Melilla one year on [web feature]

Index Number: EUR 41/001/2006
Date Published: 30 October 2006
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Spain

Between August and October 2005, 13 people were killed and many more seriously wounded whilst trying to cross the border from Morocco into Spain at the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, north of Morocco. A year after these events, Amnesty International has launched a new report to highlight the climate of impunity allowing human rights violations to be committed by Spanish and Moroccan authorities protecting the border.