
Morocco Intensifies Crackdown on Social Media Critics, Amnesty International Reports
Amnesty International has deemed the campaign of "repression" led by the Moroccan authorities against opponents, coupled with unfounded arrests, to be an attack.

Amnesty International has deemed the campaign of "repression" led by the Moroccan authorities against opponents, coupled with unfounded arrests, to be an attack.

The Moroccan authorities have arrested since September 2019, about ten activists, artists or other citizens for having harshly criticized the government on social networks. A deplorable situation, denounced by two human rights NGOs.

The wife of the Belgo-Moroccan, Abdelqader Belliraj, came out of anonymity on Friday to denounce the "abusive isolation regime" in which her husband has been living for more than three years. In her remarks relayed by Human Rights Watch, Rachida Hatti accuses the Moroccan authorities of inflicting inhuman treatment on her husband.

The General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) contradicted, on Friday, the "false allegations" relayed by the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on its website, concerning the situation of inmates incarcerated in the local prisons Toulal 2, Ain Borja and Ras El Ma, in Fez.

The "inhumane conditions" of Abdelqader Belliraj, a Belgian-Moroccan sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 and "apparently held in abusive isolation" for more than three years" in a prison in Morocco worries Human Rights Watch.

In the absence of reception facilities, France is (almost) unable to manage the influx of unaccompanied minor migrants, especially the "lost children of Morocco", left to their own devices.

Three men held captive near Tindouf are the subject of an "investigation", in particular for "treason against the nation", "sedition" and "acts of aggression against the Sahrawi state". Human Rights Watch reacts to this situation and demands the release of the detainees.

Sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Casablanca Court of Appeal, Taoufik Bouachrine , journalist and former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum, is not enjoying good detention conditions in prison, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch.

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 position of "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) and "Amnesty International" (AI) following the dissolution of the Racines association was categorically rejected by the Moroccan authorities, considering it to be an abusive interference in the affairs of justice.