Moroccan Journalists Urge Release of Detained Colleagues on Hunger Strike

Among the 120 signatories, they state that they are "following with great concern the recent developments in the cases of the two journalists".

Subjected to a regime of isolation, Omar Radi and Slimane Raissouni have started a hunger strike that would aggravate their state of health, they write.

The journalists express their full support and recall that many journalists have been prosecuted, harassed and dragged to court, sometimes sentenced to prison terms in recent years in Morocco. "Our organizations denounce the fallacious accusations and the repressive persecution targeting our colleagues, when they were only exercising their mission to inform," they affirm.

Pending their trial, which is due to open this Tuesday, May 18, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the largest representative body of journalists in the world with some 600,000 members in 150 countries, and its affiliates in France, the SNJ, the SNJ-CGT and the CFDT-Journalists, urgently demand their release and that justice be done to them.