Fearing the occurrence of a tragedy, the National Coordination of Families of Moroccans Blocked and Detained in Syria and Iraq calls on the Moroccan government to intervene to save the lives of Moroccans detained in Syria and repatriate them.
The executive office of the National Coordination of Families of Persons Blocked in Syria and Iraq strongly condemned the inhumane and degrading treatment suffered by Moroccan women detained in the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, urging the Moroccan authorities to work for their repatriation to Morocco as soon as possible.
The city of Marrakech is facing a worrying increase in begging. The figures are alarming: the number of beggars is constantly increasing, and the phenomenon is affecting more and more young people, even children.
While the coach of the Moroccan Olympic team Tarik Sektioui , bronze medalist in the football tournament of the Paris Olympic Games, has received offers from several countries such as Syria, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) opposes his departure.
While he was sentenced for terrorism in Iraq, imprisoned and has served his 20-year sentence, a Moroccan detainee has still not regained his freedom. Abdelaziz Bakkali, president of the National Coordination of Families of Moroccans Blocked and Detained in Syria and Iraq, calls on the Moroccan authorities to intervene to accelerate his return to Morocco.
A 60-year-old Belgian citizen of Syrian origin was apprehended at the port of Tanger Med, Morocco, as he was disembarking from a ferry from Spain.
On the sidelines of his participation in the Mawazine festival, Syrian artist Badr Rami expressed his wish to obtain Moroccan nationality.
Arrested on his return from Syria, then incarcerated in a prison in Meknes in 2018, an 80-year-old Moroccan jihadist is now asking for the royal pardon and a reduced sentence. His family is pleading for his transfer to Tangier, in order to be close to him and visit him regularly.
Leaving for Syria in the company of his older brother and his best friend, a Franco-Moroccan managed to leave a Jabhat al-Nosra, affiliated with Al-Qaeda, katiba to return to France. After being sentenced to 4 years in prison, including 1 year suspended probation in the first instance and on appeal in 2017 and 2018, he publishes a confessional book to close this chapter of his life, but also "to raise awareness among young people who could be seduced by jihadist propaganda".
Salima R., 33, was sentenced on Wednesday in Paris to two years in prison for having spent four years in Syria with her husband, a former member of the Islamic State (IS) organization. The young woman, who has already spent two years in pre-trial detention, from 2018 to 2020, left the courthouse free.
Judge of the Audiencia Nacional, Santiago Pedraz, is asking France for authorization to question Loubna Fares, a Spanish woman of Moroccan origin married to a jihadist and arrested in 2019, as part of the investigation against the two Spanish women repatriated from a Syrian camp in January.
Lawyer Marie Dosé is calling for the return of two orphans, of Moroccan origin but born in France, currently stuck in Syria since 2019. These teenagers, aged 14 and 16, have been in a precarious situation since the death of their mother during the bombings in 2019 in Baghouz, the last stronghold of Daesh.