Moroccan Prison Officials Refute Claims of Hirak Activist’s Hunger Strike

The detainee takes his meals "regularly and every day" and has never expressed his decision to observe a hunger strike, specifies the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) in a press release.

It adds that electronic sites have published "unfounded and fallacious" information without any verification "and at the instigation of certain parties who are trying to exploit the file of detainees in the context of these events to serve suspicious agendas".

Rabie El Ablaq was arrested in June 2017 by the police for his participation in the Hirak demonstrations in Al Hoceima. He had already carried out two hunger strikes since his incarceration.