Morocco Cracks Down on Unregistered News Websites in Digital Media Sweep

In total, nearly twenty managers of electronic sites have received summons from the cybercrime department of the judicial police in Tetouan.

According to Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, behind this "cleaning" action would be, according to some indiscretions, Mohamed Abdennabaoui, Attorney General, who would like to proceed "with the inventory of electronic sites that have filed their files before the publication of the new press and publishing code".

The compliance of their legal situation with the regulations in force as well as their operation will be the subject of hearings. In reality, among the twenty sites in question, several had to close for various reasons. However, some site managers who have not even completed any legal formalities continue to run their electronic platforms without respecting the law.

If the new press and publishing code is causing some site promoters to run, who are struggling as best they can to comply with the provisions of the law, others are openly denouncing through this operation a persecution towards their persons.