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• Moroccan Child Abuse Case: Stepmother Jailed for 2012 Mistreatment of 10-Year-Old
  7 March 2019, by Said

  The facts occurred almost 7 years ago but they are still in the memory of the victim, 10 years old at the time, who suffered the fury of her stepmother without the father intervening to put an end to the abuse.
  The little girl lived through hell between May and December 2012, reports the newspaper Le Télégramme. She had just arrived from Morocco and it was following a hospitalization that the doctors noticed injuries leading them to make a report for abuse. "On her body, bruises, (…)

• Moroccan Singer Karima Gouit Faces Trial for Allegedly Insulting Police Officer
  21 April 2024, by Said

  Moroccan singer and actress Karima Gouit was prosecuted on bail for insulting a police officer.
  According to sources close to the case cited by Rue20, the public prosecutor has set the first hearing of her trial for May 2. She also paid a bail of 5,000 dirhams.
  The interpreter of Tamghra had been arrested on Thursday, April 18 on her arrival from London at Menara International Airport in Marrakech. She had then been brought before the public prosecutor on suspicion of insulting a police (…)

• Moroccan Artist Sentenced to Prison for Insulting Airport Security Agent
  2 December 2024, by Said

  Moroccan artist Karima Gouit was sentenced to two months in prison by the court of first instance in Marrakech for insulting a security agent at Marrakech-Menara airport.
  This conviction follows an incident that occurred on April 18, during which the artist allegedly insulted an airport agent. Arrested by the police, she had been presented to the public prosecutor and placed on provisional release on bail of 5,000 dirhams.
  The court finally decided to sentence her to a prison sentence (…)

• Moroccan CEO Hind Achabi Sues Husband for Breach of Trust in Latest Legal Battle
  8 March 2019, by Amine

  The comings and goings of Hind Achabi to the courthouse are unlikely to stop there. She will have to go there on March 8 as well. A "nuance" however to report, this time she is the plaintiff. She is suing her husband for breach of trust.
  Free since March 6, in court again on March 8, the paths of the CEO of the Dalia Company group and the Moroccan justice system are constantly crossing. And it is always a question of husband or ex-husband. On the other hand, on this International Women’s (…)

• Moroccan Court Dismisses Human Trafficking Case Against Spanish Migrant Rights Activist
  11 March 2019, by Said

  The Moroccan justice system has decided to dismiss the case of the Spanish human rights activist, Helena Maleno, prosecuted for "human trafficking".
  Well known in northern Morocco and in Spain for the assistance provided to migrants through her association Caminando Fronteras, the Spaniard had been questioned by the Moroccan police and then prosecuted by the justice system after the transmission of her file by the Spanish justice system.
  In a statement to AFP from Tangier, Helena Malena (…)

• Moroccan Imam Arrested for Alleged Rape of Minor in Taroudant Region
  12 March 2019, by Said

  New case of sexual assault on a minor in Morocco with the arrest by the gendarmerie yesterday of an imam in the Taroudant region for the rape of a minor.
  Citing associative sources on the spot, the site le360 reports the arrest in Ighrem of a muezzin suspected of having sexually abused a minor girl, specifying that this case dates back to last month when the religious man had been caught in flagrante delicto with a girl in a premises where he stored wood.
  Married, the muezzin had tried, (…)

• Moroccan Dancer Faces Charges in Dubai for Blackmail and Threats Against Ex-Lover
  13 March 2019, by Amine

  A Moroccan dancer is being prosecuted in Dubai for "insult to God", blackmail and defamation threat. The story is more mundane than it appears: she would have simply threatened her ex-lover to send their intimate photos and videos to his wife if he refused to come back to her after leaving her.
  A court in Dubai has just initiated legal proceedings against a Moroccan, a professional dancer, for, according to Alyaoum24, "insult to God", threats and blackmail. She would have threatened her (…)

• Omar Raddad Case: Supporters Rally for Retrial Decades After Controversial Murder Conviction
  14 March 2019, by Amine

  The Dynamic Maroc association, in front of the Nice courthouse on March 12, demonstrated demanding "Justice for Omar Raddad". A retrial is demanded by the defense and supporters of Omar Raddad.
  As early as 2010, Omar Raddad proclaimed: "I was pardoned but I was not acquitted. I want to be rehabilitated," in a statement made to the Journal du Dimanche. Accused of the murder of Ghislaine Marchal in 1991, he was convicted three years later to 18 years in prison. His release on bail took (…)

• French Court Upholds Rape Charges Against Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan
  15 March 2019, by Said

  Tariq Ramadan remains prosecuted by the French justice system for the two rape cases. This is what the Paris Court of Appeal decided yesterday by rejecting the request to drop the two indictments filed by the Islamic scholar’s lawyers.
  Yesterday, the investigating chamber confirmed the decision of the judges who had considered that the request was "premature". Tariq Ramadan remains therefore prosecuted for the two rapes, one of which was against a vulnerable person.
  After long denying (…)

• Moroccan Suspects Face 8-Year Sentence for Alleged ISIS Recruitment in Spain
  19 March 2019, by Said

  Two Moroccans who had been arrested in February 2017 for attempting to join the terrorist group Daesh in Syria were brought before the Madrid court on Monday.
  Anouar Bensaddik and Abdelmounaim Bennassar, accused of belonging to the terrorist organization "Badalona group," now risk a sentence of 8 years in prison, reports the EFE agency, which specifies that Bennassar’s wife is also being prosecuted for having indoctrinated three other women so that they would join Syria.
  Prosecuted for (…)