The Meknès police services dismantled an active network in the trafficking of contraband drugs and clandestine abortions . At the head of this criminal gang, a doctor.
Seven people are the subject of an investigation opened on Tuesday by the regional brigade of the judicial police of Fez. They would be involved in a case of abortion practice, an act strictly punished by law in Morocco.
Two doctors and 13 other defendants including nurses, were given suspended sentences by the court of first instance in Marrakech in the case of the clandestine abortion network, whose trial has been open on appeal since last Tuesday.
The trial relating to the "sexual assault" involving the journalist Soulaimane Raissouni opened on Tuesday. For the third time, the Court of Appeal of Casablanca postponed it to the hearing of April 15, said Me Mohamed Sadqo, the lawyer for the defense, to AFP.
In Guercif , a man was arrested by the judicial police who suspect him of being the author of the pregnancy of a 12-year-old girl. The investigation opened is ongoing to determine the circumstances of what is assimilated to sexual abuse of a minor.
Unable to have an abortion, a young woman, victim of an unwanted pregnancy, agreed to undergo a cesarean section at the home of one of her acquaintances, in Biougra . An imprudence that could have proved fatal to her.
Two individuals were indicted on Saturday in Nador for their alleged involvement in the illegal sale of abortion pills on social networks.
The Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (MALI) has set up a fund that will allow women to avoid clandestine abortions with serious consequences. This is the means found by the movement to help women despite the restrictions imposed by Covid-19.
Two people were brought before the public prosecutor’s office at the Rabat Court of Appeal to answer for the death of a young woman who succumbed to an abortion. They are the gynecologist who performed the procedure and the victim’s companion.
In Kénitra, a young girl accuses a PJD official of having had sexual relations with her outside of marriage and of having abandoned her after she became pregnant. Faced with the young man’s refusal to acknowledge the pregnancy, the pregnant woman herself provoked its termination at home.
The debate on reforms to the penal code is struggling to evolve due to the parties in the governing majority who are unable to agree. The two points of contention remain the freedoms of adults in private spaces, and the use of abortion in specific cases.
Morocco, through the commission of justice and legislation, is taking a big step towards the recognition, in certain cases, of abortion. Thus, the draft law amending the penal code allows abortion in cases of rape and incest, fetal malformations or mental disorders of the mother.