The Tours Criminal Court handed down, on Thursday, sentences ranging from three and a half to five years in prison to three of the four Moroccan drug traffickers tried for acts committed in January 2017. They had participated in a go-fast.
Moroccan historian and human rights defender Maati Monjib was sentenced to one year in prison for "fraud" and "undermining state security". His support committee, which denounces an "unjust and vengeful verdict", demands his immediate release.
Nabil S., a Moroccan residing in Belgium, escaped a 15-year prison sentence before the 90th criminal chamber of the Court of First Instance in Brussels. He was on trial for the murder of Mohamed Hammas, a 28-year-old man, killed by a bullet in the chest in the Colruyt parking lot in Schaerbeek on April 11, 2012.
The Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) in Ceuta , inaugurated in 2004, now has only three immigrant women in its facilities, including one Moroccan. It used to accommodate more than two hundred in the past.
As part of the "Hamza Mon bb" case, the court of first instance in Marrakech sentenced Mohamed Madimi, president of the National Center for Human Rights in Marrakech, to 4 years in prison on Saturday.
The Verdun correctional court sentenced a Moroccan to two months in prison for the theft of an electric razor. The deputy prosecutor stresses that "there is no small theft".
In the Brussels Criminal Court, a sentence of five years in prison was requested against Faiza H., the widow of Feisal Yamoun, one of the co-founders of the Salafist group Sharia4Belgium.
In Morocco, around twenty former prisoners have discovered a passion for audiovisual media and are amassing subscribers and views with each video they post. They recount life in prison, battles between inmates, mistreatment, prison overcrowding, and much more information that millions of internet users are eager to click on.
Tried for the murder of his distant cousin Mohamed El Ebrahimi, 25, Mohamed "Bob" Ebrahimi, 48, was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the Antwerp Assize Court.
The butcher who dealt fatal blows to his wife because she refused to take out a 10,000 dirham loan to support his bankrupt business is sentenced to 15 years in prison. The criminal sentence was handed down by the criminal chamber of the Safi Court of Appeal.
The court of first instance in Rabat sentenced, on Thursday, historian and human rights defender Maâti Monjib to 12 months in prison and a fine of 10,000 dirhams, for undermining state security, money laundering and fraud.
A young Guinean found himself in prison in Morocco for migrant trafficking, while he had tried immigration with Mauritanians. His family and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights are calling on Guinea to intervene so that he can regain his freedom.