Censorship

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• Moroccan Football Chief Suspended for One Year by CAF After Referee Altercation
  9 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  Fouzi Lekjaâ, boss of Renaissance sportive de Berkane (RSB) and President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), has just been suspended for a period of one year by the Disciplinary Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This decision follows his altercation with the Ethiopian referee, Bamelak Tessama, during the final of the African Confederation Cup.
  Fouzi Lekjaâ is not at the end of his troubles! Barely out of a failed participation of the Atlas Lions in (…)

• Morocco Bans French Newspapers Republishing Charlie Hebdo Prophet Cartoons
  13 September 2020, by Jérôme

  Five and a half years after the attacks perpetrated against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly has decided to republish the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, in tribute to the killed journalists and cartoonists. A choice that does not go down well in Morocco.
  "We will never lie down. We will never give up," wrote Riss, the publisher of Charlie Hebdo, in this new issue to justify the re-publication of the act by which evil came.
  In the same vein, several (…)

• Saudi Arabia Bans Film "Victims of the Lawful" Starring Moroccan Actress Nisrine Erradi
  31 December 2020, by Kamal

  The audiovisual control body in Saudi Arabia has banned the broadcast of the film "Victims of the Lawful", where Moroccan actress Nisrine Erradi plays the lead role.
  The Audio-Visual Authority of the Kingdom has also banned the broadcast of advertisements deemed disrespectful and decided to sanction the production company and the channel.
  After viewing the film, the Saudi body indicated in a tweet that the content does not comply with the current ethical rules. In addition, the film (…)

• Morocco Slips in Global Corruption Rankings, Transparency International Reports
  30 January 2021, by Jérôme

  Morocco has not made any significant progress in the fight against corruption. With a score of 40/100, it even loses one point compared to last year, ranking 86th out of 180 countries ranked, compared to 80th position a year earlier. This is the finding of the new Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 (CPI 2020) of Transparency International.
  The corruption perception index for the year 2020 based on 13 surveys and assessments conducted by experts in 180 countries, including Morocco, (…)

• Morocco Allegedly Blocks Distribution of French Magazine Le Point
  30 April 2021, by Sylvanus

  The latest issue of the French magazine Le Point would have been censored in Morocco. This is at least the observation made following the non-distribution of the April 22, 2021 issue on Moroccan territory.
  Those newspaper vendors who had already received it have been called upon not to display or sell it, explain to Maghreb Intelligence several kiosk owners in Casablanca who have received verbal instructions. The Moroccan authorities have not, for the time being, informed of any possible (…)

• Morocco Faces Child Abandonment Crisis: 5,000 Kids Left Annually, Activist Reports
  16 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Several thousand children are abandoned each year by their families, plunging the "kingdom into an unprecedented state of schizophrenia," says activist Aïcha Chenna.
  "5,000 children are abandoned annually" in Morocco, not counting infants, 24 of whom are "thrown in the trash cans" every day, reveals Aïcha Chenna to the Spanish website Mujer Hoy.
  This statement sheds light on the fragile state of children. The other equally worrying aspect of this situation remains the total absence of (…)

• Senate Votes on Controversial Amendment to Limit Foreign Flags at French Weddings
  2 April 2021, by Jérôme

  "A scandalous amendment, bordering on state racism," contests Thomas Dossus, a Green senator, very irritated by this amendment tabled by the LR senator Henri Leroy and voted in the evening during the examination of the bill strengthening the principles of the Republic, reports Public Sénat, noting that this amendment authorizes the mayor to "regulate the fact of displaying flags other than those of the French Republic or the European Union during the celebration of marriages or the (…)

• French Government Bans Pro-Palestinian Protests Amid Controversy
  14 May 2021, by Jérôme

  The main reason for the ban on any pro-Palestinian movement in France would be the blackmail of anti-Semitism. As early as 2017, reports Lemuslimpost, Dominique Natanson, co-president of the Union of French Jews for Peace (UJFP), said that "this instrumentalization of anti-Semitism has two objectives: the first is, for Netanyahu, to bring Jews from France to Israel for demographic reasons, because the Zionist project cannot hold if it is not demographically fed. The second is to use it to (…)

• Morocco Bans French Magazine Marianne Over Muhammad Cartoon
  9 March 2024, by Said

  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 Moroccan authorities made this decision under Articles 31 and 94 of the Press and Publishing Law, which prohibit the publication of any document that infringes on the Muslim religion.
  The drawing in question, published in the February 29 issue, depicts the prophet Muhammad in tears, with the title "Mahomet débordé par les (…)

• Moroccan Islamic Group’s Facebook Page Removed, Sparking Free Speech Debate
  1 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  The page of the Jamaa d’Al Adl Wa Ihssane (JAOI) organization has been removed from Facebook. This situation follows the publication by the organization of a statement in the name of the Moroccan body for the defense of the affairs of the Ummah, to protest against censorship by the social network.
  According to Barlamane.com, this removal is due to the ostentatiously hateful and inappropriate content of the JAOI statement. Indeed, the organization issued a statement on Friday, August 30, (…)