Barring a political solution, Nasser Zefzafi will serve the 20-year prison sentence handed down by the criminal chamber on June 28, 2018 and confirmed by the Casablanca Court of Appeal in April 2019. Last Friday, the Court of Cassation in Rabat confirmed the appeal verdict, thus judicially closing the file of the detainees of the Hirak Rif.
In front of the Belfort judicial court, a 41-year-old man was sentenced to seven months in prison for charging at two Muslim women near the Grand Mosque of the Glacis. He had also made racist remarks against Islam and Muslims.
Soufiane El Bahri , the administrator of a Facebook page that republishes private photos of King Mohammed VI, was sentenced to one year in prison. This is the verdict handed down by the court of first instance in Salé on Thursday, June 17.
Noureddine H., leader of a criminal network, actively wanted since 2016 after he accidentally killed a famous DJ in the Netherlands, was arrested last May in Malaga, southern Spain. The judge ordered his detention, pending his extradition to the Netherlands.
The Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) court sentenced a 36-year-old Moroccan man to one and a half years in prison for repeated death threats against the mother of his children.
Initially scheduled for mid-July, the appeal trial of the Hanaa B case relating to pornographic revenge in Tetouan, took place on Thursday. The civil society organizations strongly mobilized alongside the victim, are outraged by the confirmation verdict rendered by the court of appeal even if this young 24-year-old mother does not return to prison.
An individual sentenced to 5 years in prison at first instance for the murder of a homosexual in Fez, has seen his sentence doubled on appeal.
The Criminal Court of Ceuta has sentenced a Moroccan who tried to cross the border in 2017 with a fake identity document to eight months in prison and a fine of 720 euros.
Mekki El Hannoudi, mayor of Louta, was sentenced to two months in prison with a suspended sentence for calling on his constituents to violate the nighttime curfew imposed during Ramadan to curb the spread of coronavirus and its variants. This was the decision handed down by the criminal chamber of the court of first instance in Al Hoceïma .
Two individuals were sentenced to one month in prison with a suspended sentence for non-observance of the Ramadan fast and public drug use. This is the verdict handed down by the court of first instance in Marrakech.
The Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is in favor of reducing the pre-trial detention rate in Morocco. The Attorney General of the King at the Court of Cassation, El Hassan Daki, indicated this on Friday in Tétouan, during a study day on "pre-trial detention in Morocco".
The mobilization in favor of the release of journalist Soulaimane Raissouni is still as strong. A solidarity sit-in was organized on Thursday, in front of the Oukacha prison in Casablanca to alert on the critical health of the former editor-in-chief of the daily Akhbar Al Yaoum.