(AI translated) Abdullah Al-Toubali is considered among the Sahrawi political prisoners against whom long, unjust prison sentences were issued, against the backdrop of his participation in the Dialogue Committee at the Gdeim Izik camp in the occupied city of Laayoune, Western Sahara, in the context of the arrests and trials that followed the dismantling of the camp in 2010.

Abdullah Ahmed Al-Toubali was born on March 24, 1980. He is unmarried, and his family resides in the city of Laayoune, Western Sahara. Abdullah Al-Toubali was arrested on December 2, 2010, in the city of Laayoune, and his arrest was linked to his membership in the Dialogue Committee at the Gdeim Izik camp, within a campaign of arrests and judicial prosecutions that targeted Sahrawi activists, politicians, human rights activists, trade unionists, and media professionals.

He was subjected to trials before the judiciary of the Moroccan occupation force, where he appeared before the military court on February 13, 2013, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. At a later stage, on July 17, 2017, the Court of Appeal in Rabat examined his case, and, according to available data, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Abdullah Al-Toubali has detention number 3768, and during his detention he was transferred between a number of Moroccan prison institutions, including Salé Local Prison 1 and Salé 2, El Arjat Local Prison 1, Tiflet Local Prison 1, and Bouzkarn Prison/Morocco.

Abdullah Ahmed Al-Hafiz Al-Toubali reported that, during the period of detention and interrogation, he was subjected to forms of physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment, according to his statement. He stated that these practices accompanied his interrogation period and left physical and psychological effects, in the context of the pressures he was subjected to following his arrest against the backdrop of his participation in the Dialogue Committee at the Gdeim Izik camp.