Mohamed Benabdelkader

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• Moroccan Justice Minister Hospitalized After Accidental Fall at Home
  11 May 2020, by Kamal

  The Minister of Justice, Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, fractured his arm during the night of Sunday, May 3, following an accidental fall at his home in Rabat.
  The member of the Political Bureau of the Union of Socialist Popular Forces was rushed to the Cheikh Zayed Hospital where he received the necessary care, reports the Akhbarona website.
  An accidental fall would be the cause of the minister’s arm fracture, recently appointed by King Mohammed VI to replace Mohamed Aujjar.
  At the origin (…)

• Unemployment Fuels Rise in Child Marriage Requests in Morocco, Minister Reports
  23 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Minister of Justice, Mohamed Benabdelkader, announced in Parliament that 98% of requests for child marriages are filed by unemployed individuals.
  According to the daily newspaper Al Massae, the Moroccan minister stated that the number of child marriages in Morocco continues to increase, with more than 32,000 requests filed in 2018, of which 26,240 were accepted.
  Commenting on these figures, the minister indicated that this situation was becoming increasingly alarming. According to (…)

• Morocco Faces Alarming Rise in Child Marriage Requests, Justice Minister Reports
  25 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  Last year saw an impressive number of marriage requests for minors in Morocco. Addressing the issue before the House of Representatives, the Minister of Justice put forward figures that are worrying.
  In Morocco, child marriage is far from being a thing of the past. This is evidenced by the statements of the Minister of Justice. According to Mohamed Benabdelkader, out of the 32,000 requests recorded last year, only 19% were rejected by the judges. Thus, the remaining 81% will have been (…)

• French Justice Minister to Visit Morocco, Addressing Unaccompanied Minors Issue
  4 December 2020, by Bladi.net

  The visits of French ministers are following one another in Morocco. After the Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, the French Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, is also expected in the Kingdom, on December 6 and 7.
  The French Keeper of the Seals plans to meet in Rabat with his Moroccan counterpart Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, reports Atlasinfo. The exchanges should focus on the thorny issue of unaccompanied Moroccan minors.
  During his visit, Eric Dupond-Moretti will be (…)

• Moroccan Justice Minister Recovering After Bathroom Fall Injury
  16 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Fifteen days after his admission to the Cheikh Zayed Ibn Soltane Hospital in Rabat, the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Benabdelkader reassures about his state of health. He had suffered a shoulder dislocation after a fall in his bathroom.
  "The minister is slowly recovering from his injury," a close associate of Mohamed Benabdelkader told Le360, stating that he had even participated in the work of the government council, held on Thursday, May 14, by videoconference. The minister was treated (…)

• Morocco Enlists Notaries in Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing
  11 October 2020, by Bladi.net

  Notaries must play a key role in the fight against the misappropriation of funds in all its forms, said the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, on Thursday in Rabat, on the occasion of a meeting organized at the initiative of his department, in partnership with the National Council of the Order of Notaries of Morocco.
  During the meeting organized under the theme, "The role of the notary in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism", Mr. Ben Abdelkader (…)

• Morocco Launches Crackdown on Unpaid Fines, Justice Minister Announces
  31 October 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Minister of Justice, stated before the House of Representatives that a strategy is being put in place to make the operations of recovering fines and pecuniary convictions more effective.
  Mohamed Benabdelkader, Minister of Justice, is going to war against unpaid fines. He made this known during his presentation of the sectoral budget for the year 2021 before the Commission on Justice, Legislation and Human Rights in the House of Representatives.
  On this occasion, the Minister of (…)

• Morocco’s National Crime Observatory Awaits Final Approval to Launch
  28 November 2020, by Ginette

  Morocco already has an organization capable of combating crime in all its forms. This is the National Observatory of Crime, which, according to the Minister of Justice, is awaiting a decree of creation to be operational.
  Mohamed Ben Abdelkader indicated this week in Rabat that the official announcement of the establishment of this Observatory cannot be made without the final approval of the creation decree. He specified that "the decree has been finalized and is awaiting its presentation (…)

• France and Morocco Sign Agreement on Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children
  7 December 2020, by Bladi.net

  An agreement on "the protection of unaccompanied minors" was signed on Monday, December 7 in Rabat, by the two Ministers of Justice, Mohamed Benabdelkader and Eric Dupond-Moretti. This document "consolidates the rights of children in accordance with the Hague Convention".
  For the French Keeper of the Seals, this "declaration of intent" does not include the repatriation of these clandestine unaccompanied minors to France. He also does not specify the conditions governing any deportations. (…)

• Morocco Maintains Year-Round Daylight Saving Time as Study Shows No Health Impact
  14 June 2019, by Said

  A few months after the announcement of Morocco’s definitive adoption of GMT+1, the first results of the impact study have just been unveiled and they would be positive.
  According to the Delegate Minister in charge of Public Administration and Civil Service Reform, Mohamed Benabdelkader, the first results of a scientific study show that the adoption of daylight saving time throughout the year has no impact on health. The Minister was responding to a question asked in Parliament.
  The full (…)