Moroccan Court Delays Decision on Release of Jailed Journalist Taoufik Bouachrine

Prosecuted on several counts of charges related to human trafficking, sexual exploitation and harassment, Taoufik Bouachrine is the subject, according to a UN report, of arbitrary detention, a finding that his lawyers did not fail to raise in their pleadings.

Following a request from the journalist’s defense, which had requested the lifting of the "arbitrary detention" during the previous hearings, the magistrate in charge of the case at the court of appeal has scheduled next Tuesday to follow up on the request, according to Ahdath.info.

For the civil party, the members of the UN team, who had described Bouachrine’s detention as arbitrary, were "deceived" by the allegations and untruths put forward by the accused’s defense.