A court in Morocco has sentenced 33 migrants to 11 months in jail for illegal entry, following a deadly mass border-crossing attempt into the Spanish enclave of Melilla last month.
According to BBC reports, at least 20 migrants died after around 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier.
It was the worst death toll in years of attempted migrant crossings into the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla – the European Union’s only land borders with Africa.
The UN, African Union and human rights groups condemned the use of excessive force by the Moroccan and Spanish security services.
