Prison

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• Human Rights Watch Condemns Harsh Isolation of Jailed Moroccan Journalist Bouachrine
  13 April 2019, by Said

  Sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Casablanca Court of Appeal, Taoufik Bouachrine, journalist and former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum, is not enjoying good detention conditions in prison, according to the NGO Human Rights Watch.
  "Regardless of the crimes he is accused of, a detainee has the right to be treated with humanity," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch in a statement cited by the organization, adding that (…)

• Morocco’s Prison Population: Women Make Up Just 2.3% of Inmates
  21 April 2019, by Amine

  This is not the news of the century but men monopolize Moroccan prisons. The number of detainees in Moroccan prisons would be around 1900 women. 42 times less than the men who are 81,000 in number. On the other hand, a comparison with France is in order.
  Moroccan prisons are about 97.7% populated by men, while women represent the remaining approximately 2.29%. Indeed, the number of female inmates is 1900 while that of male inmates is 81,000.
  It should be noted that France, although (…)

• Moroccan Man Jailed in Spain for Sharing ISIS Propaganda Video
  29 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  A Spanish court has sentenced a suspected Moroccan terrorist to two years in prison for publishing an Islamic State (IS) propaganda video showing scenes of violence.
  On January 29, the Spanish police had arrested Marouane B., 26, and seized his mobile phone and computer. The alleged terrorist is accused of having published an Islamic State (IS) propaganda video showing scenes of violence.
  After his arrest, the prosecutor had requested a sentence of five years in prison against him. But (…)

• Pardoned Moroccan Prisoner Commits Suicide After Release from Tangier Jail
  8 April 2020, by Kamal

  A beneficiary of the royal pardon granted by King Mohammed VI to 5,654 prisoners, an inmate at the Tangier prison took his relatives by surprise by taking his own life last Monday.
  The young man, aged 28, killed himself by jumping from the top of a wall near the family home in the working-class neighborhood of Bendibane.
  Sentenced to 5 years in prison, the victim, who had served 4 years of his sentence, had been authorized to leave the prison the previous Sunday evening for good (…)

• Stepmother Arrested in Tangier for Assaulting Disabled Teen in Viral Video
  28 April 2020, by Ginette

  The public prosecutor ordered the pre-trial detention of a woman in Tangier, following a video published on social media in which she assaults a disabled teenager.
  The video was shared by the news site Cap24, and shows a violent altercation during which the woman orders the teenager to leave the kitchen and hits him with punches. Despite the efforts of a man who tried to intervene to prevent him from further harming the teenager.
  According to the same source, the person involved has (…)

• France Launches Second Phase of National Anti-Radicalization Plan
  17 April 2019, by Kamal

  The French state has focused on the second phase of the National Plan for the Prevention of Radicalization, launched in 2018, which aims to prevent the expansion of this phenomenon through corrective actions.
  In 2018, about sixty preventive measures were announced by the French government, as part of the National Plan, through the active participation of social actors (schools, universities, businesses, public services), in order to act against the phenomenon of radicalization. (…)

• Moroccan Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Mother’s Fatal Window Fall
  20 April 2019, by Amine

  A man has just been sentenced to 20 years in prison in a case that had initially looked like an accident: the death of his mother, which has finally been revealed to be a murder.
  The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tanger has just, according to Assabah, sentenced a man for having thrown his mother out of the window, thus causing her death. The man is 56 years old. The mother had several injuries and fractures and the rapid arrival of the emergency services did not help save her (…)

• Moroccan Activist Jailed for 3 Years Over Facebook Post on Rif Protests
  4 May 2019, by Amine

  A Rif activist has just been sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of a few hundred dirhams (500dh). The cause, a Facebook post where he talks about civil rebellion (for the release of Hirak detainees).
  According to EFE, Rachid Chabani would have asked, on Facebook, a question: "if this act of protest could become a civil rebellion until the release of the detainees". A simple question, a threat to advance the case or an invitation? The answer is not so obvious.
  Chabani asked (…)

• Inmate Found Dead in Moroccan Prison: Suicide Suspected in Tetouan Facility
  4 May 2019, by Said

  New suicide in Moroccan prisons with the death of a man who decided to end his life in the local prison of Tetouan, in the north of the country.
  In a statement, the management of the penitentiary institution explains that the victim committed suicide by "wrapping his shoelaces around his neck, before inserting them into the ventilation window of the cell where he was".
  The body of the victim was discovered very early in the morning by one of the prisoners in the same cell, reports for (…)

• Naked Man Arrested in Témara for Public Indecency and Drug Use During Lockdown
  5 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  The defendant appeared before the investigating judge for indecent exposure, reports Assabah. While walking naked in the streets of the commune, the young man from Casablanca was arrested for violating the state of emergency and drug use, according to sources close to the Sidi Yahia Zair gendarmerie. Before committing this act, he had consumed drugs and then abandoned his car in the middle of the road.
  The man is said to be suffering from severe depression due to confinement. According to (…)