Moroccan Activist Zefzafi’s Torture Claims Denied by Prosecutor’s Office

Faced with these accusations, the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca, indicated that the detainee had confirmed, during his first appearance before the Public Prosecutor’s Office on June 5, 2017, in the presence of his defense, to have suffered only violence at the time of his arrest in Al-Hoceima.

To prove it, he had exhibited scars of minor injuries observed at the time on his body. They were noted in the report of his arrest. They were due to his resistance at the time of his arrest by the elements of the security.

According to MAP, during his interrogation in first instance by the investigating judge, Nasser Zefzafi had alleged to have been the subject of an anal touching by a baton, during his arrest by the police elements.

But, the medical examination to which he was subjected on June 8, 2017, showed that he had not been the victim of any aggression or rape or indecency and that his injuries established in the report of the Judicial Police dated back to the date of his arrest on May 29, 2017.

The press release states that the competent public prosecutor’s office, having not found any aggression or indecency, decided to dismiss the complaint, considering that the minor injuries that had been noted by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police and confirmed by the medical examination, date back to the date of his arrest by the public forces, which proves that the conditions of his arrest were legal.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office, while reaffirming its availability to open a new investigation if the detainee provides new evidence, categorically rejects the accusations of torture and cruel treatment, as well as any recourse to judicial procedures for purposes other than those of establishing justice and upholding the truth.