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• Belgian Father Released After Serving 9 Years for Son’s Death
  8 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  The father of little Younès, Mohamed Jratlou, has been free since Wednesday, November 6, after serving a 9-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter against his son.
  Now retired in a shelter in Pecq, Belgium, at the age of 78, Mohamed Jratlou will be able to mourn his son, whom he still denies having killed in 2012.
  And yet, the Assize Court, despite his protests, sentenced him to 9 years for intentional violence resulting in the death of little Younès, then 4 years old.
  The (…)

• Moroccan Ex-Official Sentenced to 7 Years in $1.7 Billion Corruption Case
  5 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Highlighted by justice in the so-called "17 billion" case, Zine El Abidine Houass knows what to expect since this Monday. Indeed, the former President of the Commune of Had Soualem is sentenced to 7 years in prison, for several charges that have been brought against him.
  The incredible "17 billion" case has fueled endless controversies that the verdict handed down by justice will try to silence. In this case, several charges were brought against the former Istiqlal deputy, namely (…)

• Saudi Arabia Coach Hervé Renard Targeted in Online Sextortion Scheme
  24 February 2021, by Sylvanus

  The former coach of the Atlas Lions, Hervé Renard, would have filed a complaint following a dark story of sextortion. The police of Oued Zem, where the blackmailer is from, would have already arrested him.
  The scammer would have befriended Hervé Renard, former coach of the Moroccan national team, on the internet. He was posing as a young Lebanese woman, and would have filmed him in embarrassing situations, reports Assabah. Once the current coach of Saudi Arabia was filmed, the young man (…)

• Morocco Launches Massive HIV and Syphilis Screening for 20,000 Prisoners
  9 December 2019, by Ginette

  The AIDS screening campaign launched in Moroccan prisons ends on December 25. According to the General Delegation for Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR), 20,000 inmates will benefit from it.
  This screening campaign was launched as part of World AIDS Day celebrated every December 1st. The DGAPR, in a press release explaining the rationale for this action, indicated that syphilis screening is also underway for the benefit of 2,000 prisoners.
  The Association for the Fight against (…)

• 18-Year-Old Moroccan Inmate Found Dead in French Prison Near Lyon
  2 February 2019, by Said

  The body of a young Moroccan was found lifeless by guards during the night from Friday to Saturday in his cell in a prison in France.
  Barely 18 years old, he hanged himself in his cell at the Villefranche-sur-Saône penitentiary center, near Lyon, reports the newspaper Le Progrès. The guards and firefighters who arrived quickly on the scene were unable to revive the young man.
  It was during a round that the death was noted around 1 a.m., indicates the spokesperson for the prison (…)

• Dubai Emir Intervenes: Moroccan Actress Mariam Hussein Released from Custody
  11 February 2020, by Kamal

  It was Kuwaiti artist Mohamed Maha who announced the good news in the Story section of his Instagram account. "I would like to announce the good news of the release of Mariam Hussein, who, thank God, has just reunited with her little girl, whose joy cannot be described."
  The intervention of the Emir of Dubai in this case was communicated by the local press, without specifying whether the decision to deport the Moroccan actress has been canceled or not.
  To recall, Mariam Hussein was (…)

• Morocco Considers Privatizing Conjugal Visits for Inmates Amid Resource Constraints
  24 March 2019, by Amine

  Intimate visits for inmates should soon disappear due to lack of financial and logistical resources. But the prison administration is not against the idea of opening this door to private promoters.
  The idea is crazy! The "khalwa charîya" (legal intimacy) allowing a detainee (male or female) to have, among other things and especially, sexual relations with his (or her) legitimate spouse could well become an economic niche. The prison administration is thinking of attracting investors who, (…)

• Morocco to Consider Release of Mentally Ill Inmates in Penal Code Reform
  11 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  Inmates suffering from mental disorders will be able to benefit from release in the coming days. Mohamed Benabdelkader, Minister of Justice, has indeed given the green light to examine a bill aimed at introducing an amendment to Articles 76 and 77 of the Penal Code relating to mentally ill prisoners.
  During an intervention at the upper house of the Commission on Justice, Legislation and Human Rights, Minister Mohamed Benabdelkader announced that the government has given its approval for (…)

• Moroccan Prison Authority Refutes Human Rights Watch Claims on Inmate Conditions
  21 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  The General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) contradicted, on Friday, the "false allegations" relayed by the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on its website, concerning the situation of inmates incarcerated in the local prisons Toulal 2, Ain Borja and Ras El Ma, in Fez.
  To silence these unfounded accusations, the DGAPR has provided clarifications on each of these inmates. Regarding the prisoner (A.B), currently detained in the Toulal 2 prison, the DGPAR (…)

• Supermarket Security Guard Sentenced for Sexual Harassment of Coworkers
  13 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Nîmes criminal court sentenced a Moroccan, employed as a security guard in a supermarket, to 12 months in prison with a suspended sentence for acts of sexual harassment on female colleagues.
  According to the plaintiffs, the Moroccan would have made vulgar remarks and invited them to get closer to him sexually or maritally. Touching was also mentioned. Facing President Brice Barbier, the forty-year-old said he had not "realized the extent of his remarks, otherwise he would have stopped (…)