Moroccan Official Assaults Public TV Journalists During Lockdown Report
8 May 2020
A reporting team from the public channel "Al-Amazighia" was assaulted by the authority agent, the caïd of the 3rd circle of Tifelt, located 50 km from Rabat.
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Morocco Urged to Free Four Detained Journalists as RSF Calls for Press Freedom
10 April 2020
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 (…)
Human Rights Group Condemns Ex-Charlie Hebdo Journalist’s Call for ’Live Ammunition’ Against Protesters
8 November 2019
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 (…)
Moroccan Journalist Hajar Raïssouni Named Among World’s Most Persecuted by Press Freedom Group
4 October 2019
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 (…)
Morocco Approves Bill to Launch Two New Parliamentary TV Channels
30 July 2019
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 (…)
Morocco’s Press Struggles to Comply: Only 13% of Media Outlets Meet New Code
30 June 2019
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 (…)
Moroccan Journalist Found Dead in Casablanca: Police Investigate Suspicious Circumstances
18 June 2019
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 (…)
Algerian Authorities Detain and Deport US-Based Moroccan Journalist
17 May 2019
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 (…)
Morocco Slams Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Report, Citing Bias
21 April 2019
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 (…)
Morocco Ranks 135th in Press Freedom as Journalists Face Ongoing Trials, RSF Reports
20 April 2019
The annual report produced by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) assigns an unfavorable position to Morocco. Indeed, as last year, the kingdom, which does not seem to have made (…)