Based on the Annual Report on Criminal Policy of the Attorney General, the Spanish news agency, EFE, indicates that 3,048 people were prosecuted for "adultery offense" in Morocco in 2018. In addition, 170 people had to deal with justice, for homosexuality and 73 others for abortion.
A former parliamentarian (from the Constitutional Union) would have been arrested in the context of one of the most scandalous cases. He would have called a gang to invade his mother’s villa, assault her and then throw her out.
The latest figures just published by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) are worrying: Moroccan women are having fewer and fewer children and this trend is expected to continue in the coming years.
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.