Save the Children slams Spain over repatriation of minors
Red Cross members assist migrant minors as they wait to be tested for COVID-19 upon their arrival to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on May 19, 2021.
SavetheChildrenon Saturday urgedSpainto halt therepatriationto Morocco of hundreds of unaccompaniedminorswho 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 thechildren.
Up to 10,000 migrants flooded across the border in North Africa into Ceutaoverseveral days in May as Moroccan border guards stood aside.
This was widely seen as retaliation forSpain's decision to host Brahim Ghali, leader of the Polisario Front, which has for decades fought Morocco for the independence of Western Sahara, for medical treatment.
Spainon Friday began sending back more than 700 unaccompaniedminorsto Morocco.
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"Repatriations from Ceuta continue today,"SavetheChildrenposted on Twitter Saturday.
The NGO called "for an end" to these. "Spainis not guaranteeing the protection ofminors," 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 ofSpain's ruling coalition, also criticised the transfers in a letter to Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
"We have been informed bychildren's organisations on the ground that therepatriationofminorshas 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.