Moroccan Man Jailed for Sharing Controversial Religious Cartoon on Facebook

Born in 1967 and father of 2 children, he was found guilty by the Court of Appeal of Safi of intentionally insulting and offending the Islamic religion through a caricature entitled "if the prophets lived in our time".

For the Moroccan Association of Human Rights, the sentence remains unjustified since the fifty-year-old "only shared the post on the same social network without adding any comment", reported the site Lakome.

The Association, which questions the validity of the accusation, stressed that "the man is the subject of an arbitrary judgment and has been convicted twice according to the cursed article 267 of the Moroccan Penal Code", which had victimized many Moroccan citizens and association activists.

While calling for the repeal of Article 267, which severely sanctions freedom of expression, the Association called for the release of the fifty-year-old as well as all those who have been victims of this repressive law, adds the site.