There are 366 inmates from the various penitentiary establishments, spread throughout the Moroccan territory, who have obtained the precious diploma that gives access to university. As a result, the results of the two Baccalaureate 2019 sessions recorded a success rate of 47% among prisoners.
The Criminal Court of Oran has handed down its verdict: 15 years in prison for the raï singer, Cheb Hicham, for trafficking in hard drugs (cocaine). Placed under surveillance, his co-defendants, including a Moroccan, eventually fell in flagrante delicto of concluding a transaction involving the acquisition of 1 kg of cocaine and 10,000 Ecstasy tablets, to be delivered to the singer.
The case had caused a scandal. A woman had married a second man, taking advantage of the fact that her first husband was in prison, by falsifying documents. She has just been sentenced to two years in prison. But she was also ordered to pay damages to her first husband.
1,046 foreign nationals, of 69 different nationalities, are detained in Moroccan prisons. With 131 prisoners, the French are in first place, followed by Senegalese, with 92 detainees, and Guineans, with 77. In 2018, several extradition requests were received by Morocco.
For the success of the "Civil Initiative for the Rif" which aims to be a framework for discussions to find a favorable outcome to the Hirak file, Nasser Zefzafi demands the involvement of activists still in detention, as well as that of their families. The leader of the Hirak made his position known to his father who had gone to visit him.
A Spaniard has just been sentenced in Spain to a prison sentence for murdering a Moroccan in Valencia. His wife is also being prosecuted for her involvement in this affair, a theft that went wrong.
The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Rabat handed down various sentences on Monday, June 24, 2019, against the 11 people involved in the theft of a princess’s jewelry, as well as two expensive smartphones, in her own room, at her residence.
The case had made headlines. And the judgment was handed down on Wednesday, June 20, 2019. It is 4 months that a car park attendant will spend in prison, for having passed himself off as an untouchable drug baron, in front of the cameras of a Spanish channel.
Four individuals, including the Director of a "Barid Bank" agency, were sentenced to prison terms, following the counterfeiting of stamps and signatures of Moroccan army colonels, and the usurpation of their identity, to take out bank loans.
National media had denounced the inhumane conditions of the inmates within the local prison, "Ain Sebaa", of Oukacha. The officials of the penitentiary establishment reacted, describing these allegations as "slanderous, false and unfounded".
In 2016, an Iraqi businessman, Ahmed Mawlood Mohamed, was kidnapped and murdered by three individuals in Turkey. These criminals are divided into a Moroccan national and two Iraqis. They had kidnapped their victim after offering their services to set up a currency exchange office in Istanbul.
"The Silence of the Cells", a 54-minute documentary, traces the journey of women incarcerated in Moroccan prisons, and especially their sometimes very difficult detention conditions.