Moroccan Hirak Prisoner Claims Repeated Denial of Mother’s Photo in Oukacha Jail

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 most dear to him, despite all the insistence and prayers", this being "an act of vengeance" as he is one of the Hirak convicts.

For the prisoner, this refusal is "not only an act of vengeance but also a torture - if not the worst psychological torture that can be inflicted on a prisoner deprived of his freedom". He is also said to have been twice prohibited from bringing in a novel.

For Ahmjiq, this kind of procedure, which has no basis in the applicable prison regulations, depriving a prisoner of "the face of his mother" and of his right to read, is completely arbitrary and "undermines the reputation of the public administration and the reputation of the State in general".