Belgian State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Theo Francken attended a meeting Wednesday in Marrakech to discuss ways to expulse Moroccan nationals arrested for terror-related offences, says Belga. Francken alongside Interior Minister Jan Jambon held talks with their Moroccan counterparts with the aim of fighting against terrorism. In a bilateral meeting hosted by the 5th Euro-African Ministerial Conference on Migration and Development, Jambon and Francken discussed with the Moroccan Interior Minister cases of some Moroccan nationals who have been repatriated. The two men insisted that Morocco must welcome these individuals at the time when the Belgian Council for Alien Law Litigation (CALL) rejects the expulsion of some of them. Earlier this week, the body refused to approve the deportation of the man accused of joining and participating to the activities of a terrorist group. CALL has relied on Article 3 from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) which prohibits the expulsion of prisoners to countries where they can be subjected to torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, reports Belga. Jan Jambon explained he had invited the Moroccan Interior Ministry to find a solution for the situation. The Belgian minister argued that CALL would have based its decisions on reports from NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW). Meanwhile, Abdelouafi Laftit, promised to present more guarantees proving that the Moroccan government doesn't use torture, says Belga.
