
Enaâma Asfari
Enaâma Asfari is a human rights defender who was born in 1970. He was sentenced to 30 years by the Appeals Court in Salé in 2017. Enaâma Asfari is the vice-president of CORELSO (the Committee for Liberties and Respect for Human Rights in Western Sahara). In 2009, he was imprisoned for 4 months for holding a key chain that depicted the Sahrawi flag. Enaâma Asfari was arrested on 7 November 2010, the day before the camp was dismantled and the time the human rights defender is alleged to have carried out the criminal acts of which he stands accused. Enaâma Asfari spent five days in an unknown location, where he was held blindfolded and handcuffed. He claims to have signed the declarations and confessions under torture. The Committee against Torture (CAT) found in a decision (Case 606/2014) pertaining to Enaâma Asfari, that Morocco had violated Articles 1, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, with the continued detention of Enaâma Asfari, for which they relied on confessions signed under torture.