Imprisoned for criticizing the Moroccan authorities on YouTube and Facebook, human rights activist Rida Benotmane is supported by Amnesty International, which calls for his immediate release and the dropping of all charges against him.
A Moroccan and a Franco-Algerian were sentenced on Friday in Paris to prison terms ranging from two to three years for terrorism financing. The funds were transferred via cryptocurrency from France to Syria.
While he is starring in the film Citoyen d’honneur with the famous actor Kad Merad, the Franco-Algerian Brahim Bouhlel has spoken about his stay in the local prison of Oudaya in Marrakech, where he had served an eight-month sentence for "his bad joke".
The Brussels correctional court has requested 50 months in prison against a Moroccan residing in Schaerbeek accused of having raped and sequestered a young Moroccan woman with whom he had an arranged marriage. The verdict is expected in three weeks.
The Khouribga Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of Moroccan activist Fatima Karim to two years in prison for "attack on the Islamic religion".
A Belgian national was sentenced on Thursday to eight years in prison by the Meknes Court of Appeal for sexual abuse within the family. The accusations were brought against him by his ex-wife, of Moroccan origin.
The court of first instance in the city of Kenitra sentenced the wife of popular singer Adil Miloudi to 9 months in prison for "obstruction of justice, contempt and assault on law enforcement officers in the exercise of their duties".
The 45-year-old Moroccan Adil Lazizi, arrested on May 30 as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of his neighbor in the San José district of Zaragoza, faces a 25-year prison sentence. The prosecution has just requested an additional ten-month prison sentence against him for violation of sentence, since he committed the murder after escaping from prison.
The appeal trial of Moroccan activist Saida El-Alami , sentenced in the first instance in April to two years in prison for "contempt of a constituted body", has been postponed to September 12.
Two men who would be involved in the triggering of a forest fire in Ifrane, were arrested by the gendarmerie elements of Azrou. An investigation has been opened.
Incarcerated since last July at the Santé prison (Paris) after his arrest at Orly airport, the Franco-Moroccan rapper Younes Latifi alias Mister You is receiving the support of his friend Rohff, who in a message addressed to the authorities, has called for his release.
Of the more than 800 Spaniards incarcerated in foreign prisons, about a hundred are held in Morocco. Most of them, with no criminal record, are serving sentences for drug trafficking.