Moroccan Islamist Leader Arrested for Public Indecency in Meknes

The arrest of the first leader of Al Adl Wal Ihsane for the Fès-Meknes region took place on Monday, October 31, 2022 in the late afternoon. The elements of the judicial police of Meknes caught him in the midst of sexual intercourse with a divorced woman, on board his car in an isolated place, in one of the neighborhoods of Meknes, reports Goud.ma. After their arrest, the two defendants were placed in detention. Justice will decide their fate.

In September, the judicial police of Rabat had summoned the activist and member of the general secretariat of the political circle of the Al Adl Wal Ihsane movement, Hassan Bennajeh, following a complaint from the public prosecutor’s office against a publication dating from May 2022 on his former Facebook account. Through this publication, he had reacted to the assassination of Palestinian journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh and strongly criticized the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel.