Morocco’s King Pardons Convicted Terrorist on Health Grounds

The prisoner Amer Gharzani, sentenced to 5 years in prison for terrorism, benefited from the exceptional pardon of King Mohammed VI, due to his state of health, on Saturday, January 18, according to a statement from the Joint Commission for the Defense of Islamist Detainees.

The native of the city of Fez was serving a five-year prison sentence at the Ras El Ma I penitentiary center in Fez. Hospitalized for several weeks in a Fez hospital for anemia, Amer Gharzani is now free to move.

The joint commission for the defense of Islamist detainees, which defends the rights of Islamist prisoners, thanked the king for his humanitarian gesture. It also thanked the sovereign for having pardoned, on January 11, eight other women convicted of terrorism.