The verdict in the case of Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni has been handed down. The editor-in-chief of the daily Akhbar Al Yaoum was sentenced to five years in prison with a fine of 100,000 dirhams (about 9,500 euros) for "sexual assault" on an LGBT activist. His support committee and Reporters Without Borders are demanding his release pending a "fair" appeal trial.
The Provincial Court of Cadiz has rejected in an order the request of the lawyer of Mohamed Amahda, known as Tony, who had requested his extradition to Morocco last April to serve the rest of his sentence. The accused had been sentenced in 2013 for the murder of Laura Gutierrez, a young nursing student, to a sentence of 18 years and 3 months in prison, reduced in 2014 by the Supreme Court to 14 and a half years.
The Moroccan justice system has sentenced Mustapha Semlali alias "Allal Al Qadous" to two years in prison and a fine of 5,000 DH for defaming Prince Moulay Rachid.
The justice system has requested a 16-year prison sentence against a Moroccan who violently assaulted his ex-partner in 2019 in Santa Lucía de Tirajana (Canary Islands) while he was already under a restraining order.
The Court of Appeal of Casablanca sentenced, on Friday, July 9, the journalist Soulaimane Raissouni to five years in prison for rape and kidnapping. He has been on a hunger strike for more than 90 days.
The Tarragona prosecutor’s office has requested two years in prison against a Moroccan accused of depriving a wounded man he pretended to help in Salou of his belongings.
The Barbastro investigating court withdrew the parental rights of the Moroccan who stabbed his ex-wife Hassna A, 35, also of Moroccan origin, to death in front of their three children. The couple had divorced two months before the murder, which occurred on Wednesday.
The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Nador increased the sentence of the main defendant in the case of the kidnapping and murder of little Ikhlas , sentencing him to life imprisonment. In the first instance, the man had been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tangier sentenced a young man and his mother to 20 years and 15 years in prison respectively for parricide .
Nasser Zefzafi was admitted on Tuesday to a hospital in Tangier after losing consciousness in his cell. This is the third time he has been transferred to a health center since February.
A tragic end for an inmate at the Kenitra civil prison. The prison administration indicated, on Monday, in a press release, that the prisoner "A.R" hanged himself with a rope made from his clothes.
A Spaniard of Moroccan origin, detained in the Puig de les Basses prison, near Figueres (Girona), died on Sunday from the effects of a fire started in his cell by another inmate.