(AI Translated) Abdullah al‑Toubali is among the Sahrawi political prisoners who have received long, unjust prison sentences because of his participation in the dialogue committee at the Akdim Ezik camp in Laayoune, the occupied Western Sahara. This occurred within the wave of arrests and trials that followed the dismantling of the camp in 2010.

Abdullah Ahmed al‑Toubali was born on 24 March 1980; he is single, and his family resides in Laayoune, Western Sahara. Abdullah al‑Toubali was arrested on 2 December 2010 in Laayoune, and his detention was linked to his membership in the dialogue committee at the Akdim Ezik camp, as part of a broader campaign of arrests and judicial proceedings targeting Sahrawi activists, politicians, human‑rights defenders, trade unionists, and journalists.

He was tried before the courts of the Moroccan occupying power, appearing before a military court on 13 February 2013, when a sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment was imposed on him. In a later stage, on 17 July 2017, the Rabat Court of Appeal reviewed his case and, according to the available information, sentenced him to 20 years’ imprisonment.

Abdullah al‑Toubali holds arrest number 3768 and was transferred during his detention among several Moroccan penitentiary institutions, including Salé 1 and Salé 2 local prisons, the Arjat 1 local prison, the Tifelt 1 local prison, and the Bouzkarne prison in Morocco.

Abdullah Ahmed al‑Toubali reported that, during his detention and investigation, he was subjected to forms of physical and psychological torture and ill‑treatment, according to his testimony. He noted that these practices accompanied the investigation period and left physical and psychological effects, in the context of the pressure he faced after his arrest due to his participation in the dialogue committee at the Akdim Ezik camp.