Moroccan TV Show Suspended After Guest Promotes Violence Against Women

The sanction has fallen. The "Kotbi night" show on Chada TV is suspended for three weeks due to the sexist and misogynistic remarks of the singer Adil Miloudi. This sanction follows a self-referral by the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA) and a meeting of its Higher Council for Audiovisual Communication (CSCA) on Tuesday, September 17 in Rabat.

Justifying its decision, the CSCA suggested that the remarks made by Adil Miloudi "constitute an apology for violence against women, an express incitement to this violence, presented in a positive way as an attribute of virility and a manifestation of affection, or even a recommendable behavior for the consolidation of marital ties".

The Council also noted that these remarks also undermine the dignity of women, dehumanize them and make them an object of property and a submissive being that the man can treat as he pleases.

"A man who does not hit his wife is not a man," the singer Adil Miloudi had declared last June, as a guest on the show, in the company of the French actor Sami Naciri. "One day, I beat my wife in Spain, they put me in custody before releasing me. In Morocco, these things are quite normal," he had supported.

This excerpt from the show was widely circulated on social media. Following the reappearance of the video, the HACA had decided to use its power of self-referral on September 8.