# Spain deports asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry

https://mins.news/en/item/117418

- Reuters, 2026-10-27 13:10 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/spain-deports-african-asian-asylum-seekers-morocco-amid-rights-group-outcry-2026-10-27/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6ae0a2b653aa080001e52b3d

> Spain has sent more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants back to Morocco after they reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and had their asylum requests rejected. It is the enclave’s first deportation of this kind since a mass border crossing in July.

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