The General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) stated on Sunday, April 19, 2020, that eleven people have tested positive for coronavirus in prisons. These are nine officials and two inmates.
Five cases of coronavirus contamination have been recorded in the local prison of Ksar El Kbir . These are four prison employees and one inmate, according to the update provided on Tuesday by the General Delegation of Penitentiary Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR).
Rumors have been circulating for a few days about the spread of coronavirus among inmates. The General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) refuted, on Thursday, the authenticity of this audio recording relayed on social networks. It claims that these are false allegations "devoid of any foundation".
The Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH) calls for the decongestion of prisons to protect detainees from the virus. In this sense, it proposes the release of political prisoners.
The Moroccan Observatory of Prisons (OMP) has called for the protection of the prison population by the release of certain categories of detainees to prevent their contamination by the coronavirus. In a statement, it recommends that the authorities extend the "exceptional" measures to prisons, in order to release prisoners due to be released in March 2020 earlier.
The restrictions imposed by the authorities to contain the spread of the coronavirus are reaching the prison system. The goal is to protect the prison population, which, even though it is isolated, is not immune to the coronavirus virus.
The families of Hirak detainees, in solidarity with the detainees of the protest movement in the Rif, are also observing a 48-hour hunger strike.
Nasser Zefzafi , leader of the Rif Hirak, who has been on a hunger strike for 9 days, wants to make a rather surprising donation. This is at least what his father, Ahmed, has made known, who visited him at the local prison of Ras Elma in Fez on Wednesday, February 26, 2020.
The circumstances of the death on Sunday of Kamilia El Marrakchi, better known as Kamilia Larbi, continue to stir up the web. For health reasons, the Moroccan model had been transferred from the Bourkaiz prison in Fès, where she was being held, to the city’s hospital center.
The "inhumane conditions" of Abdelqader Belliraj, a Belgian-Moroccan sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 and "apparently held in abusive isolation" for more than three years" in a prison in Morocco worries Human Rights Watch.
Mobile phones are now banned in penitentiary institutions for security reasons.
The General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) has denied the allegations of aggression or unlawful treatment suffered by the deceased prisoner, (M.H), who died on October 13.