Mapping digital rights in MENA: towards a safer online environment
New research from IFEX member 7amleh examines how digital rights policies and practices in Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia are impacting freedom of expression and the right to information, and highlights the need to improve people’s access to a safer online environment.
Outed in Morocco: Trans people face harrowing experiences in an ongoing search for justice
As discriminatory laws and a failure to protect trans people from violence and harassment continue to plague the LGBTQI+ community in Morocco, Human Rights Watch offers an insightful glimpse at the vulnerability trans people experience in the Kingdom.
Morocco: Freedom of expression continues to erode as independent newspaper editor detained
Tunisian organizations call on Moroccan authorities to immediately release the editor of independent newspaper “Akhbar Al-Youm”, Slimane Raissouni, and to stop detaining journalists under fabricated charges.
Morocco: A growing crackdown on online freedom of expression
According to Human Rights Watch, there is an alarming trend of activists, artists, and journalists being jailed for voicing their political opinions online.
Moroccan journalist detained over her intimate life
Journalist Hajar Raissouni, 28, has been charged with having an abortion and sex outside marriage, and faces up to two years in prison if convicted.
Morocco: Law misused to silence reporters
Moroccan authorities are using a law designed to keep people from falsely claiming professional credentials to bring criminal charges against people trying to expose abuses.
How pro-government media in Morocco use “fake news” to target and silence Rif activists
Jailed activist Nasser Zefzafi was smeared by Moroccan media.
Suspended prison sentences for four Moroccan journalists
Four journalists were handed suspended sentences for covering a parliamentary commission’s debate about the Moroccan Retiree Fund’s deficit.
Trial of Moroccan journalist Tawfiq Bouachrine “unfounded”
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention confirmed that the charges against Bouachrine are in retaliation for his journalistic work and his criticism of the Moroccan government.
Heavy jail sentences for 53 Hirak activists in Morocco despite allegations of torture
“The appeals court needs to examine and discard any tainted confessions and ensure that no one is convicted except for real crimes,” said Human Rights Watch.
Moroccan journalist Taoufiq Bouachrine’s 12 year jail sentence verdict marred by doubt
RSF is disturbed by the Casablanca criminal court decision. Plaintiffs were pressured by the authorities and some denied making complaints against Bouachrine.
Western Saharan media activist suspends hunger strike in Moroccan prison
The 32-year-old activist was arrested in 2010 and convicted of “complicity in violence” against security forces in 2013. He is now in solitary confinement in Morocco’s Talfit prison.
Morocco: Journalist Convicted on Dubious Charge
A Moroccan court has sentenced a prominent journalist to three years in prison on a dubious charge of failing to report a security threat
Moroccan court sentences two journalists to several years in prison
Moroccan authorities should immediately release journalists Mohamed al-Asrihi and Hamid al-Mahdaoui and drop all charges against them.
‘We want the world to know’: Activists reporting on occupation face legal threats in Western Sahara
Local journalists and media activists reporting on the occupation and Moroccan abuses face legal obstacles and risk lengthy jail sentences in order to make their voices heard.
Freedom of association in Morocco: Legal loopholes and security practices
A new report by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Information warns that despite relative improvement in the state of freedom of association in Morocco, practices formerly beleaguering local and international rights organizations in the kingdom may reemerge.