«The Spanish authorities expelled on Saturday a Sahrawi couple born in Morocco, who sought political asylum in Barcelona», a well-informed source, who requested anonymity, told Yabiladi. The husband, S. A. submitted on, April 22nd, an asylum application that was refused by the Spanish Interior Ministry. On April 29th, he submitted again a request, claiming, this time, that he had been «abused» and jailed «eight times» by the Moroccan authorities. When his asylum application was examined, the man in question and his wife were not allowed to leave the El Prat airport in the capital of Catalonia. The expulsion of the Sahrawi couple is similar to the of a student called Houcine Bachir Brahim. The latter sought asylum in the Canary Islands after arriving on January the 11th in Lanzarote. Ten days later, the student was handed over to the Moroccan authorities. He is suspected of being involved in the murder of Amazigh student Omar Khaleq, aka Izem, murdered on January the 23rd, 2016 during a clash between Sahrawi and Amazigh students near the Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences in Marrakech. The Marrakesh Appeal Court had already confirmed last April the sentence handed down in the first instance to 18 people convicted of killing Izem.
