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• Morocco Cracks Down on Unregistered News Websites in Digital Media Sweep
  18 April 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Attorney General has instructed the judicial police in Tetouan to interview officials of electronic sites. Sanctions will fall, particularly on those whose sites do not comply with legal provisions.
  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 (…)

• Algerian Authorities Detain and Deport US-Based Moroccan Journalist
  17 May 2019, by Bladi.net

  Abdellah Imassi, a Moroccan journalist working for the American news channel "Al Hurra", was arrested and then expelled from Algeria after several hours of interrogation on Wednesday, May 15 in the early evening.
  Abdellah Imassi’s arrest occurred as soon as he arrived at Algiers Houari Boumediene International Airport, several media report. Moroccan journalist based in the United States, this colleague who works for the American Arabic news channel "Al Hurra", was expelled to Washington, (…)

• Moroccan Journalist Found Dead in Casablanca: Police Investigate Suspicious Circumstances
  18 June 2019, by Amine

  Moughit Abdelmoutaleb, a correspondent for the Arabic-language media Sawt Al Adala, was found dead on Sunday, June 16, 2019, in Casablanca, lying in a pool of his own blood. It would be an accident. But a strange accident...
  This information was relayed by the media Noonpresse, which chose to title its article: "Death of a journalist under enigmatic conditions". Indeed, regarding this news, many questions arise. Moughit Abdelmoutaleb was found lifeless, on the ground, near his motorcycle, (…)

• Morocco Approves Bill to Launch Two New Parliamentary TV Channels
  30 July 2019, by Sylvanus

  Unanimously, the deputies voted for the bill on the creation of two television channels in the Moroccan Parliament. This initiative stems from an agreement between the parliamentary groups of the first Chamber.
  The Parliament will have its own television channels. This is what should be retained from the vote on the bill creating the parliamentary channel. Under the provisions of the adopted text, it is planned to create two television channels. The first will be called "The Parliamentary (…)

• Moroccan Journalist Hajar Raïssouni Named Among World’s Most Persecuted by Press Freedom Group
  4 October 2019, by Ginette

  The "Hajar Raïssouni" case, named after the journalist who was sentenced on September 30 to one year in prison for "illegal abortion" and "sexual relations outside of marriage", continues to cause waves in national and international public opinion.
  After a demonstration of support for the young woman in front of the Parliament on October 2, it is the turn of the "One free press coalition", which brings together editors and editors of major international media, to establish a ranking (…)

• Human Rights Group Condemns Ex-Charlie Hebdo Journalist’s Call for ’Live Ammunition’ Against Protesters
  8 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Zineb El Rhazoui’s remarks on CNews are not to the liking of the League of Human Rights (LDH), which condemns them rigorously. The former Charlie Hebdo journalist, on this channel, indeed called, on November 5th, for the use of "live ammunition" against young people from working-class neighborhoods, referring to a confrontation with the police in Mantes-la-Jolie.
  The League of Human Rights (LDH), in its press release, considers Zineb El Rhazoui’s remarks, the one who compared Islam to the (…)

• Morocco Urged to Free Four Detained Journalists as RSF Calls for Press Freedom
  10 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) claims to have sent a message to the Head of Government, Saâdeddine El Otmani, and to other Heads of State and Government in several African countries, calling for the release of journalists currently detained.
  RSF says it has contacted El Otmani, and pleaded for the release of four journalists detained in the kingdom, reports Hespress. These are Mohamed Asrihi, journalist for the website Rif24, Hamid El Mahdaoui, director of the website Badil.info, (…)

• Morocco Slams Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Report, Citing Bias
  21 April 2019, by Said

  As expected, the government has reacted to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) report on press freedom, and let’s just say it is not at all satisfied with the conclusions of its authors.
  Denouncing RSF’s "vigorous" contempt, the government once again questions the objectivity and transparency of its reports and statements on press freedom in Morocco.
  For the government, RSF "again violates" the rules of objectivity and the criteria of accuracy and transparency, by ranking Morocco in the (…)

• Morocco’s Press Struggles to Comply: Only 13% of Media Outlets Meet New Code
  30 June 2019, by Bladi.net

  The implementation of the new Press Code is still struggling in Morocco. As proof, only 13% of printed periodicals and electronic newspapers have managed to adapt their statutes to the provisions.
  The figures put forward by the Annual Report on the Implementation of Criminal Policy and the Action of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, for the year 2018, shed light on the difficulties experienced by media professionals in bringing themselves into compliance with the law.
  In its role as (…)

• Moroccan Independent Newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum Shuts Down Amid Financial Struggles
  15 March 2021, by Sylvanus

  This announcement was made on Sunday by the owner of the newspaper Toufik Bouachrine, who was arrested on February 23, 2018 and incarcerated in the Casablanca prison, and then convicted in particular of "human trafficking," "abuse of power for sexual purposes," "rape and attempted rape." On the Facebook page of the Media21 group, owner of Akhbar al-Yaoum, it was explained that the suspension of the newspaper’s publication is due to economic reasons.
  The former editor-in-chief of the (…)