Uyghur Man Faces Extradition Trial in Morocco Amid China Terrorism Allegations

According to his lawyer Miloud Kandil, Idris Hasan, 33, will appear before the Moroccan Court of Cassation on September 1, where he will be informed of his extradition to China, reports Hespress. At Beijing’s request, the computer scientist was arrested by the airport police at Mohammed V in Casablanca on July 19, because he "was the subject of a red notice issued by Interpol, due to suspicions of belonging to an organization on the lists of terrorist organizations."

Since then, he has been detained in the Tiflet prison. Interpol suspended the red notice issued by China against him in early August on the grounds that "new information has been brought to the attention of the general secretariat." The organization had therefore undertaken a new examination of the file.

In the wake of this, Dilnur Reyhan, president of the Uyghur Institute of Europe, had, in a letter addressed to Chakib Benmoussa, Moroccan ambassador to France, asked the Moroccan government not to extradite Idris Hasan to China. "The terrible situation of the Uyghur people has been widely documented, attested to both by researchers and NGOs, officially qualified as genocide by seven parliaments in the world. [...] About three million Uyghurs are detained in concentration camps and prisons because of their ethnicity and religion (Muslim)," she had warned.