While several NGOs and other associative, political, or even entertainment actors are calling for the release of the Hirak detainees, the latter, including Nasser Zefzafi, were transferred to the prison of Al Hoceïma on Thursday, in order, it is said, to bring them closer to their families.
The NGO Human Rights Watch has just reacted to the confirmation on appeal of the conviction of the 42 activists of the Hirak of the Rif, describing the verdict as "shocking".
The decision of the Casablanca Court of Appeal to maintain the prison sentences against the Hirak activists has prompted many residents of the city of Nador to take to the streets to demonstrate.
The verdict fell like a guillotine for Nasser Zefzafi and his co-detainees, as the 20-year prison sentence was upheld on appeal this Friday, April 6.
Last Friday, the journalist Hamid El Mahdaoui would have requested a special permit to be able to attend his son’s birthday, and his request was rejected. Let’s remember that he was arrested and convicted in the context of the Rif Hirak.
For Nasser Zefzafi, the leader of the Hirak (a label he rejects), it is out of the question to deal with political parties regarding the affairs of the Rif, and he invites all Rif activists to send them packing as well. For him, these affairs concern only the Moroccan State, him and "no one" else.
The Hirak rifain detainee Nabil Ahmjiq is said to have insisted and begged to be allowed to have a photo of his mother, without success. Four attempts to get it, four failures.
Abdessadeq Al Bouchtaoui is in France. The lawyer known for defending several activists of the Hirak movement in the Rif has just obtained political asylum there.
Journalist Gerbert van der Aa was expelled from Morocco on February 17 for working on articles dealing with illegal immigration and the situation in the Rif.
The Spanish government accepted 55 asylum applications from Moroccans in 2018. The vast majority of these accepted applications concerned Hirak activists from the Rif and transgender individuals.
The leader of the Hirak movement in Al Hoceima, Nasser Zefzafi, is accused by the management of the local Ain Sebaa 1 prison of "sowing trouble and anarchy through behavior contrary to the law."
The information that the Hirak detainee Rabie El Ablaq would be on hunger strike has just been denied by the administration of the local prison Ain Sebaâ 1 (Oukacha).