Rights and Justice

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• Restaurant Owner Faces Trial for Denying Entry to Veiled Woman in French Pyrenees
  3 June 2022, by Sylvanus

  The manager of a restaurant located in Hendaye, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, who refused entry to a veiled customer, was taken into custody following the complaint for discrimination filed at the Pau police station. She will be tried before the Bayonne criminal court on September 20.
  Placed in custody and then referred to the Bayonne prosecutor’s office for "discrimination based on alleged religion," the restaurateur will appear before the Bayonne criminal court on September 20, reports (…)

• Moroccan Man Sentenced for Assaulting Off-Duty Officer on Zaragoza Bus
  5 June 2022, by Prince

  Bilal M., a Moroccan who assaulted a plainclothes police inspector on a bus in Zaragoza last year, was sentenced on Friday to two and a half years in prison with probation and to pay 12,345 euros in damages.
  The prosecution and the defense reached this agreement on Friday, after the Moroccan acknowledged the facts. Detained since last October at the Zaragoza prison, he will now be free to move around. The defendant had violently assaulted the police officer, who was on vacation, who was (…)

• Spanish Court Extends Brahim Ghali Entry Investigation for Six Months
  7 June 2022, by Prince

  The judicial investigation into the Ghali affair will remain open for at least another six months. This is the decision of the investigating judge of the Saragossa court, Rafael Lasala, after the provisional dismissal pronounced with regard to the former minister, Arancha González Laya.
  Given the complexity of this judicial case, and as provided for by the Spanish legal system, the procedure will be extended by six months, after the normal deadline of a year-long investigation. The (…)

• Moroccan Woman Alleges Rape and Forced Prostitution by Couple in Spain; Prosecutors Seek 21-Year Sentence
  7 June 2022, by Prince

  The public prosecutor’s office of the Saragossa court has requested Monday 21 years in prison against the Moroccan Mohamed A. and his companion, Elena Loredana N., accused by a woman of Moroccan origin of having stolen her, sexually assaulted her and even forced her into prostitution.
  The plaintiff studied and worked in Germany before settling in Spain where she met the couple who would have offered her help. "When I arrived in Saragossa in January 2018, I didn’t speak a word of Spanish. (…)

• Lille Mosque Wins Legal Battle Against Landlord in Property Dispute
  8 June 2022, by Ginette

  The Companions of Peace association, which manages the Bois-Blancs mosque in Lille, has just won another legal battle against the landlord Vilogia, supported by the Lille Metropolis (MEL).
  June 6 remains a great day for the Bois-Blancs mosque thanks to the Lille administrative court, which has canceled the pre-emption by which the landlord had acquired, in 2019, a premises coveted by the mosque, reports Nord Eclair.
  The association thought it could take possession of the land in place (…)

• Morocco’s Highest Court Allows Divorce by Proxy, Changing Family Law Landscape
  8 June 2022, by Sylvanus

  In Morocco, a person can now divorce by proxy provided that certain conditions are met. This is the result of a jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation.
  A jurisprudence that will make history. Based on certain conditions mentioned in the Malakite rite to which Article 400 of the Family Code refers, which a power of attorney respects, the Court of Cassation has overturned a judgment rendered at first instance and then on appeal which refused a spouse the right to be represented in divorce (…)

• Spanish Court Asked to Reveal Intelligence Reports on Morocco’s Role in Sahrawi Leader Case
  11 June 2022, by Prince

  Brahim Ghali’s lawyer, Manuel Ollé, has asked the National High Court to provide him with the two reports from the Spanish intelligence services (CNI) from May and June 2021, in which it is allegedly indicated that the complaints filed against the Sahrawi leader for alleged crimes of torture and kidnapping come from Moroccan intelligence services.
  The legal procedure against Brahim Ghali was opened by the complaint of Fadel Breica, a Sahrawi dissident, arrested in 2019 in Tindouf, who (…)

• Moroccan Imam Sentenced for Assaulting Children in Koranic School
  12 June 2022, by Armel

  The imam who hit children in a Koranic school in Bab Taza last week has finally been sentenced to three months in prison with a suspended sentence.
  The verdict has finally been handed down. Prosecuted in custody, the imam of the Dekina mosque was sentenced by the court of first instance in Chefchaouen to three months in prison with a suspended sentence for assault and battery against a minor child under the age of 15, reports Assabah.
  The 44-year-old religious figure appeared in a video (…)

• Moroccan Surgeon Faces Trafficking Probe: Dr. Tazi Case Deepens
  11 June 2022, by Sylvanus

  The case of famous plastic surgeon Dr. El Hassan Tazi, owner of the Chifaa clinic, incarcerated in the Oukacha prison for, among other things, human trafficking and abuse of weakness, has entered a new phase this week.
  End of the preliminary investigation. Now it’s time for the in-depth investigation. This week, the investigating judge at the Casablanca Court of Appeal has launched an in-depth investigation into the case of Dr. Tazi, his brother, his wife and other persons accused (…)

• Spanish Court Rushes Trial of Moroccan Jihadists to Prevent Prison Release
  13 June 2022, by Prince

  Abderrahmane Tahiri (known as Mohamed Achraf), Mohamed El Gharbi, Abdelah Abdesalam, Karim Abdesalam and Lahcen Zamzami are Moroccan jihadists who continued to indoctrinate during their prison stay in Spain. The justice wants to prevent one of them, Achraf, from being released from prison.
  The five defendants, all previously convicted of terrorism, met in various prisons in Spain between 2014 and 2019. They are accused again of crimes of belonging to a criminal organization and terrorist (…)