AhlulBayt News Agency: Spain’s Congressional Justice Committee voted Tuesday to urge the government to facilitate the restoration of original Muslim surnames for thousands of families in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on Morocco’s northern coast.
It calls on the government to prioritize amendments to Civil Registry regulations and establish an extraordinary procedure – collective, accessible, and free – allowing affected families to reclaim surnames altered during nationalization processes in the 1980s.
All parliamentary groups except Vox expressed support for the proposal’s core premise, which Ceuta’s local Assembly had unanimously endorsed a decade ago. The only point of contention was a clause calling on the state to “publicly recognize the historic error” committed during the nationalization process.
Mohamed Mustafa, secretary general of Ceuta Ya!, had expressed confidence ahead of the vote. He described the measure as “an act of historic justice toward a community that has suffered structural discrimination for decades''. Mustafa, whose own real surname is El Hisho, said thousands of residents in Ceuta “continue to see a part of their identity amputated''.
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