Targeted after a television appearance wearing her headscarf, a Parisian lawyer has filed a complaint. She denounces the normalization of hate speech, while her detractors cry foul over restrictions to their freedom of expression.
Moroccan courts have condemned YouTuber Mohamed Reda Taoujni for defamation against Prince Moulay Hicham. He faces substantial financial penalties after spreading unfounded accusations on social media.
Prosecuted for contempt of institutions, young rapper and activist Souhaib Kabli has had his eight-month prison sentence upheld on appeal. His supporters strongly denounce an obstruction to freedom of expression .
An association denounces the threats of the Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir against Hakim Ziyech. The footballer is targeted for his support for Palestine. The organization invokes the freedom of expression guaranteed by international conventions .
Moroccan rapper Pause Flow would be prosecuted under arrest for his controversial songs broadcast on his YouTube channel over the past eight years, including the latest one titled « Track », in which he criticizes the artist Don Bigg.
The French weekly Marianne (issue 1407) has been banned from distribution in Morocco, due to a caricature drawing deemed offensive to the prophet Muhammad.
The level of press freedom has declined in Morocco, according to the "Freedom Press Index". This is revealed by a recent study.
Morocco expelled on Wednesday two French journalists from the magazine Marianne, who were conducting investigations on King Mohammed VI and "human rights violations" in the kingdom.
Jouad Ballahsan, then director of the Chaabi Bank agency in Madrid, a subsidiary of Banque Populaire, had been fired in 2017 for having participated in a demonstration in support of the Hirak of the Rif. The justice system has just declared this dismissal null and void.
In a podcast, the Amazigh academic and activist Ahmed Assid spoke on several topics, including the repression of dissident voices in Morocco, freedom of expression or secularism.
Kholoud Mokhtari, the wife of Souleimane Raissouini, the Moroccan journalist sentenced by the Moroccan justice system to five years in prison for "rape", recounts the sad fate of her husband and denounces the lack of respect for freedom of expression in the kingdom.
On the occasion of Catherine Colonna’s visit to Morocco, she announced the return to normal relations between Rabat and Paris. But this easing of tensions is being challenged by Moroccan MPs since the European Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on the deterioration of press freedom in Morocco.