Nasser Zefzafi

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• Hirak Leader Zefzafi’s Health Stable, Prison Denies Stroke Claims
  30 January 2019, by Said

  The information that the leader of the Hirak movement Nasser Zefzafi suffered a stroke is false, the administration of the local Ain Sebaa 1 prison has just indicated.
  Wanting to put an end to these "allegations" published in particular by his father, the administration affirms that the detainee underwent a series of medical examinations, including an MRI and an electroencephalogram, which showed that he suffered from a "minor congenital anomaly".
  And to deny that the prison (…)

• Morocco’s King Considers Pardoning Hirak Protesters Ahead of Eid Al Adha
  8 June 2019, by Said

  The detainees of the Hirak of the Rif, but also those of Jerada, could soon be pardoned by King Mohammed VI. This is at least the wish of several politicians, including Mustapha Ramid.
  On his Facebook page, the State Minister went on to comment to react to the royal pardon granted to several detainees of the Hirak of Al Hoceima and Jerada, expressing the wish of the same initiative for the next Eid Al Adha holiday, scheduled for next August. "It is the Moroccan wisdom that intervenes from (…)

• Moroccan Islamist Group Condemns Imam’s Attack on Rif Protest Detainees
  31 August 2019, by Sylvanus

  The Salafist imam, Mohamed Fizazi, who had called Nasser Zefzafi and the six other detainees of the Hirak of the Rif "bastards" because of their willingness to renounce Moroccan nationality, has incurred the wrath of Omar Iharchan, member of the National Secretariat of the Political Circle of Al Adl Wal Ihssane (AWI).
  "Many are unjustly and aggressively intimidating the Hirak detainees. They want to give them lessons and organize to defend nationality and enumerate its virtues," wrote (…)

• Hirak Leader Zefzafi Accused of Disruptive Behavior in Moroccan Prison, Transferred to Hospital
  28 January 2019, by Said

  The leader of the Hirak movement in Al Hoceima, Nasser Zefzafi, is accused by the management of the local Ain Sebaa 1 prison of "sowing trouble and anarchy through behavior contrary to the law."
  The latter has, according to the prison administration, been transferred to the hospital to "receive the necessary care due to a swelling of the hand resulting from an injury that he inflicted on himself."
  On Saturday, he requested care for foot pain, the administration specifies, according to (…)

• Rif Protest Leader’s Mother Resumes European Tour, Defies Arrest Warnings
  8 March 2019, by Amine

  Mother and son probably resemble each other, to the point that Nasser Zefzafi would have warned his mother, Zoulikha Si Haddou, that she risked "joining" him in the Oukacha prison.
  After an absence for health reasons (the treatment of breast cancer), Zoulikha Si Haddou, the mother of the leader of the Rif Hirak Nasser Zefzafi, has just started her European tour again, which aims to support her son as well as all the convicted Hirak activists.
  At a meeting held last Thursday in Paris, (…)

• Jailed Moroccan Protest Leader Rejects Political Parties, Calls for Direct Talks with State
  20 March 2019, by Amine

  For Nasser Zefzafi, the leader of the Hirak (a label he rejects), it is out of the question to deal with political parties regarding the affairs of the Rif, and he invites all Rif activists to send them packing as well. For him, these affairs concern only the Moroccan State, him and "no one" else.
  While he has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, Nasser Zefzafi has just indicated the only possible interlocutor for him to solve the problems of the Rif: The State. If the latter has, as (…)

• Moroccan Court Upholds 20-Year Sentence for Protest Leader Nasser Zefzafi
  6 April 2019, by Kamal

  The verdict fell like a guillotine for Nasser Zefzafi and his co-detainees, as the 20-year prison sentence was upheld on appeal this Friday, April 6.
  The Casablanca Court of Appeal upheld the 20-year prison sentence handed down on June 28, 2018 by the criminal chamber of the Casablanca Court of Appeal against Zefzafi and three other leaders, prosecuted for "conspiracy to undermine the security of the State".
  Arrested on May 26, 2017, Nasser Zefzafi and 3 other leaders of the Al Hoceima (…)

• Hirak Protest Leader Zefzafi Moved to Al Hoceima Prison Amid Calls for Release
  11 April 2019, by Amine

  While several NGOs and other associative, political, or even entertainment actors are calling for the release of the Hirak detainees, the latter, including Nasser Zefzafi, were transferred to the prison of Al Hoceïma on Thursday, in order, it is said, to bring them closer to their families.
  Sentenced to sentences of up to 20 years in prison, Nasser Zefzafi and other Hirak detainees have just left one prison for another, according to the website Article19, saying it is based on the words (…)

• Moroccan Protesters Launch "Mute Mouth" Campaign Against Rif Hirak Sentences
  12 April 2019, by Amine

  Photos of people with their mouths closed by adhesive tape are starting to spread on social networks. A way to protest against the harsh sentences against the activists of the Rif Hirak.
  Hespress explains that this campaign has been launched in several cities in Morocco and that Moroccans residing abroad have also published photos of themselves with their mouths closed by adhesive tape. Giving, according to the media, to this campaign "an international dimension".
  The same source (…)

• Moroccan Minister Hints at Possible Royal Pardon for Hirak Protest Leaders
  17 April 2019, by Kamal

  Mustapha Ramid sees a favorable turn in the case of Nasser Zefzafi and the other co-detainees of the Hirak. Is he alluding to a pardon from King Mohammed VI?
  "I don’t believe that Nasser Zefzafi will spend 20 years in prison," said the Minister of State in charge of Human Rights, during the "Confidences de Presse" program on Sunday evening on the second Moroccan channel, reports 2M.ma.
  Answering the questions of the guests of Abdellah Tourabi, the host of the show, Mustapha Ramid showed (…)