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  • Morocco’s Human Rights Council Meets with Rif Hirak Detainees’ Families, Signaling Potential Breakthrough
    22 May 2019, by Kamal

    The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) recently held a meeting with the association of families of Hirak detainees. This event could signal the beginning of a solution, according to some civil society actors.
    Ahmed Zefzafi, who chairs the Tafra association, met with the president of the CNDH, Amina Bouayach, to discuss the detention conditions of Hirak activists and family visits.
    According to Alyaoum24, this meeting marks a turning point in the Hirak activists’ case. For Khalid El (…)

  • Morocco’s PM Hints at Possible Pardon for Hirak Protesters, Praises Reconciliation Efforts
    10 July 2019, by Kamal

    In an interview with the television channel France 24, the Head of the Executive praised the initiative, stating that it is "a political behavior aimed at lasting reconciliation and the resolution of problems through legal means."
    He added that the Moroccan state "has always proposed solutions to move forward. Instead of dwelling on a problem of this kind, the Government always tries to overcome it."
    Saâdeddine El Othmani concluded that "Morocco has gone through the experience of (…)

  • Moroccan Rights Group Files Torture Complaint Over Hirak Protesters’ Treatment
    12 October 2019, by Bladi.net

    A complaint was filed on Monday, October 7, before the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation by the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) regarding "allegations of torture of Hirak el Rif detainees". In the absence of a resolution, it plans to refer the matter to international bodies.
    The institution targeted by this complaint is the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ), on a charge concerning "certain acts of torture during the transfers of political detainees from (…)

  • Moroccan Journalist Jailed Over Tweet Criticizing Court Ruling
    27 December 2019, by Bladi.net

    Omar Radi, a Moroccan journalist and human rights activist, was placed in detention on Thursday for a tweet denouncing a court decision.
    The journalist had been heard earlier on Thursday by the judicial police who referred him to the prosecutor, according to his lawyer, Said Benhammani. According to his counsel, the Prosecutor had then decided to place him in detention and his trial began shortly afterwards in the evening.
    Pleading for the cause of their client, the lawyers of the (…)

  • Morocco’s King Considers Pardoning Hirak Protesters Ahead of Eid Al Adha
    8 June 2019, by Said

    The detainees of the Hirak of the Rif, but also those of Jerada, could soon be pardoned by King Mohammed VI. This is at least the wish of several politicians, including Mustapha Ramid.
    On his Facebook page, the State Minister went on to comment to react to the royal pardon granted to several detainees of the Hirak of Al Hoceima and Jerada, expressing the wish of the same initiative for the next Eid Al Adha holiday, scheduled for next August. "It is the Moroccan wisdom that intervenes from (…)

  • Moroccan Left Coalition Slams Government’s Support for Middle East Peace Plan
    7 February 2020, by Bladi.net

    The PSU, CNI, PADS parties, gathered in a federation called FGD, expressed, during their Casablanca session, their discontent with the official position of the Moroccan government on the "Deal of the Century". The FGD condemns the behavior of the Executive, calling on it to reconsider its position.
    The Democratic Left Federation (FGD), a left-wing coalition, describes this Moroccan position of publicizing its actions as "shameful", considering that it "reflects Morocco’s dependence and (…)

  • Moroccan Lawmaker Proposes Amnesty Bill for Rif Protesters and Activists
    4 January 2020, by Bladi.net

    Omar Balafrej, deputy of the Federation of the Democratic Left (FGD) is committed to his draft law of general amnesty for the detainees of the Hirak movement of the Rif as well as for all the activists of the social protest movements. In this sense, he recently launched an appeal for support from his colleagues for its adoption in order to "appease the situation and avoid an explosion".
    This draft law of general amnesty provides, according to the FGD deputies, for the release of all (…)

  • Moroccan Hirak Prisoner Claims Repeated Denial of Mother’s Photo in Oukacha Jail
    10 March 2019, by Amine

    The Hirak rifain detainee Nabil Ahmjiq is said to have insisted and begged to be allowed to have a photo of his mother, without success. Four attempts to get it, four failures.
    Cited by AlYaoum24, Ahmjiq, sentenced during the Hirak of the Rif to 20 years in prison, claims that the management of the Aïn Sebaâ, Oukacha prison, last Wednesday "prohibited him from bringing in a photo of his mother, for the fourth consecutive time", and therefore "deprived him of seeing the face of the being (…)

  • Moroccan Minister Hints at Possible Royal Pardon for Hirak Protest Leaders
    17 April 2019, by Kamal

    Mustapha Ramid sees a favorable turn in the case of Nasser Zefzafi and the other co-detainees of the Hirak. Is he alluding to a pardon from King Mohammed VI?
    "I don’t believe that Nasser Zefzafi will spend 20 years in prison," said the Minister of State in charge of Human Rights, during the "Confidences de Presse" program on Sunday evening on the second Moroccan channel, reports 2M.ma.
    Answering the questions of the guests of Abdellah Tourabi, the host of the show, Mustapha Ramid showed (…)

  • Amnesty International Calls for Fair Retrial of Moroccan Hirak Protesters, Citing Rights Violations
    17 December 2018, by Said

    The organization Amnesty International (AI) has just published its report on the trial of the Hirak activists of Al Hoceima in which it denounces the serious procedural irregularities as they "were deprived of their right to a fair trial" by the court of first instance in Casablanca.
    For the human rights organization, the analysis of the trial "reveals several violations of the right to a fair trial, including convictions based on ’confessions’ obtained under torture." It lists the names (…)