Two Sahrawi refugees after their arrival in the Canary Islands in 2011. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Spain violated an international rights treaty by trying to expel in 2012 a group of Sahrawi refugees who were seeking asylum after they illegally landed in the Canary Islands. In a decision made public Tuesday, the justices in Strasbourg said that the Spanish High Court, along with the Interior Ministry, violated the European Human Rights Convention by refusing to study asylum requests filed by 30 Sahrawis, who claimed they being persecuted by Moroccon authorities. awed the judges have handed down this ruling given the nosustance within our legis, whon it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it
Interno Ministry decided that asylum requests filed in 2012 by 30 refugees had no merits