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  • Shocking Video of Child Abuse in Morocco Sparks Outrage on Social Media
    25 November 2020, by Bladi.net

    The video of a girl tortured for several minutes by what appears to be her mother has caused an outcry on Moroccan social media. The incident is said to have taken place in Larache and Internet users are calling for an exemplary and severe punishment.
    Considered at first as a punishment to teach the little girl the rules of hygiene, this punishment quickly took on the appearance of a torture lasting several minutes endured by the little girl. In a video available on Youtube, we can see (…)

  • Irish-Moroccan Teen Reunites with Long-Lost Father After Facebook Search
    5 September 2022, by Sylvanus

    18 years later, a young Irish-Moroccan woman has found her Moroccan father she did not know. A happy reunion for the Moroccan expatriate and his daughter.
    Raised by her mother, Caitlin McKinney, 18, did not know her father Bachir. Luckily, she found him on Facebook in 2020. Since then, they have started talking on the phone. "It was one of my dreams to meet my father one day. On every birthday, I blew out the candles and that was my wish," Caitlin confides. "When we started talking, I was (…)

  • French ISIS Fighters Face Alleged Torture in Iraqi Prison, Families Warn
    28 January 2020, by Bladi.net

    The families of French jihadists, sentenced to death in Iraq, have denounced "torture, abuse, and physical and psychological mistreatment in the Al Rosafa prison in Baghdad".
    Through correspondence, the prisoners have informed their families of the "torture", "humiliation" and "incessant threats" from certain guards. These militiamen, who are responsible for their security, have also informed them of the imminence of their execution in this prison, or after a transfer to the Nasiriyah (…)

  • Families Protest Inaction on 2013 Melilla Deaths, Demand Justice for Slain Youths
    29 April 2023, by Prince

    The parents and close friends of Emin and Pisly, two young people from Melilla who were allegedly killed by agents of the Royal Moroccan Navy on October 27, 2013, demonstrated on April 27 to demand justice. They are desperate and lament that no action has been taken on this case since then.
    The families of Emin, 20, and Pisly, 24, gathered again to demand justice, 9 years and 6 months after the deaths of the two young people in 2013. The demonstration took place in front of the Municipal (…)

  • Moroccan Islamist Party Opposes Inheritance Equality in Family Code Reform
    3 March 2023, by Sylvanus

    The Party of Justice and Development (PJD) led by Abdelilah Benkirane, is expressing its opposition to the reform of the Family Code. At least, for certain proposals.
    The PJD’s position is unambiguous. The demand for equality in inheritance matters is not to the liking of the Islamists. Following an extraordinary meeting of its general secretariat, the party stated in a press release that this demand is a "serious novelty that goes against the convictions of the Moroccan Muslim society (…)

  • Search Intensifies for Missing 14-Year-Old Girl in Moroccan City of Mohammedia
    22 September 2024, by Sylvanus

    In Mohammedia, a family is asking residents for help in finding their 14-year-old daughter who has not given any sign of life since leaving her home on September 9.
    Meriem Zouhri was last seen leaving her parents’ home to run an errand around 10 p.m. on September 9. She did not take any personal belongings, ruling out the hypothesis of a runaway. "Everything was normal at home; she had no reason to run away," her older sister Imane told Morocco World News. She hinted that her family was (…)

  • Search Intensifies for Missing 13-Year-Old in French Alps
    2 April, by Prince

    Missing for more than a week, Amjad Jacquemin, a 13-year-old teenager, remains untraceable. His family is desperately searching for him. The national police have issued a missing person alert for the young man of Moroccan origin.
    This 13-year-old teenager, a resident of the Les Perce-Neige educational center in Gap, has not given any sign of life since March 23, the date on which he is said to have disappeared, according to the missing person alert issued by the police of the (…)

  • Morocco Faces Shortage of Family Record Books as Summer Return Approaches
    7 April, by Sylvanus

    Anticipating the high demand for family record books as the season approaches for the return of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs), the Ministry of the Interior is mobilizing civil status inspectors at the prefecture level in the various regions of Morocco. Currently, there is a real shortage of family record books.
    For many months, provinces and prefectures with a large number of local authorities and administrative annexes have been facing a shortage of family record books. This is (…)

  • Belgian-Moroccan Woman Battles Bureaucracy to Reclaim Misspelled Surname
    11 April, by Sylvanus

    Since 2019, a 73-year-old Belgian-Moroccan woman has been going through an administrative hell to have her family name corrected.
    Born in Morocco on January 5, 1952, Nawal Berrada* arrived in Saint-Gilles on July 3, 1976. She has been registered in the population register of the Brussels municipality since November 12, 1982. Her surname is correctly spelled with "2 r’s" on her birth certificate, established and corrected in Morocco. Her name Berrada is also spelled with "2 r’s" on her (…)

  • Morocco Considers Reforms to Family Code After 15-Year Review
    10 February 2019, by Amine

    Just 15 years after the entry into force of the Moudawana, the Family Code, Mohamed Aujjar, Minister of Justice, declared last Friday that his ministry was carrying out a comprehensive and objective evaluation to consider possible reforms.
    On the occasion of the 3rd Forum of Moroccan Expatriate Lawyers, the Secretary General of the Ministry, Abdelilah Lahkim Bennani, read on behalf of the Minister an address, at the opening of a Conference on "The Family Code in the light of Comparative (…)