Posts Tagged ‘Morocco’
June 13th, 2011
Rachid Nini, the editor of one of
Morocco’s leading newspapers, has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined 100 euros after he was convicted of compromising “the security and integrity of the nation and citizens”. Nini had been held for over two months before the trial took place and had been
refused bail three times. A number of his editorials had attempted to expose the corrupt practices of the Morrocan government.
February 22nd, 2011
Moroccan youth organised protests through YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, just like activists across the Arab world. But are their aims the same? Jillian C York reports
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April 8th, 2010
Moroccan journalist
Mohammed Attaoui was convicted of extortion and sentenced to two years in prison on
March 22. He claims he was set up by a former source and a forestry ministry official. Attaoui said he gave him the money — about
1,000 dirhams (90 euros) — to travel to Rabat or Meknes to take a test for a promotion, but he was arrested two hours later by national guard officers. He has staged a hunger strike demanding a fair trial. Attaoui, an environmental correspondent for the daily newspaper Al-Monataf wrote an expose about the illegal cedar wood trade in Morocco, and was arrested just 20 days after it was published.
November 18th, 2009
Moroccan newspaper Al-Michaal was banned on 13 November after editor in chief Driss Chahtan was sentenced to one year in prison and a 10,000 dirham fine as punishment for his articles about the health of King Mohamed VI. Two other journalists on the paper, Rasheed Mahameed and Mostafa Hiran, were sentenced to three months in prison and fines of 5000 dirham for writing similar articles.
October 2nd, 2009
The Moroccan government is suing daily newspaper Akhbar Al Youm after it published a cartoon of Prince Moulay Ismail. The government said the
cartoon showed “blatant disrespect” to the royal family.
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August 3rd, 2009
On 2 August it was reported that Moroccan magazines Telle Qu’elle and Nichane were confiscated after publishing a survey about how Moroccan’s view the monarchy. The government has promised to carry out the same action on any paper or magazine which publishes the survey. This is despite the fact that the monarchy was seen as “positive or very positive” by 91 per cent of Moroccans, according to the survey. The Minister of Communication, Khaled Nasseri, said: “The Moroccan monarchy is not a debatable subject.”
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October 28th, 2008
A schoolboy in Morocco has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for insulting the country’s monarch.
The 18-year-old allegedly changed the ‘God, Fatherland, King’ national slogan on his school blackboard to ‘God, Fatherland, Barcelona’. Read more
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March 19th, 2008
A man imprisoned in Morocco for creating a fake Facebook profile of the king’s brother has been released after receiving a royal pardon.
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