A Belgian council endorses Malika El Aroud’s expulsion to Morocco

Moroccan national Malika El Aroud, sentenced in 2008 for terror-related offences, will be expelled to the Kingdom. The decision was endorsed after authorities in Belgium concluded that she wouldn’t be «subjected to torture» if deported to Morocco, reports Le Soir.

Delivered on Friday, the ruling pronounced by the Aliens Litigation Council stated that the El Aroud can be taken back to her country of origin, after she appealed against her expulsion, stressing that she might be tortured and illtreated when extradited to Morocco.

For the record, the Council for Alien Law Litigation denied political asylum for Malika El Aroud in January.

Held in a center in Bruges (Belgium), El Aroud served an eight-year sentence for financing a terrorist organization in 2002 and for recruiting fighters in the favor of the same group.

The process of depriving her from the Belgian citizenship started in 2014. Refusing to reconsider her Salafist positions, the Brussels court upheld this decision.

Widow of a jihadist, Malika El Aroud was stripped of her Belgian citizenship on November the 30th, 2017. On October the 11th, she was arrested at her place and is expected to be deported to Morocco.