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Morocco: Ratification of Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
On 24 November 2014, on the eve of the second Global Human Rights Forum held in Marrakech between 27 and 30 November 2014, Morocco ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), giving hope to see the country on the road to a genuine implementation of the fundamental rights of persons deprived of liberty. Becoming the 76th State - the fourth in the Arab world after Tunisia, Mauritania and Lebanon - to accede to this important instrument of international law, Morocco will have to establish a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) against torture. Should the Moroccan National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), wish to hold this role, it will have to comply fully with the Paris Principles.
Morocco: Al Shatbi Brothers Arbitrary Detained Since 2002
On 30 October 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of two brothers, Mohammed and Kamal Al Shatbi, arbitrarily deprived of their freedom since their respective arrests without warrant on 25 and 27 September 2002.
Morocco: Alkarama Calls on Authorities not to extradite Sayed Omar to Egypt
Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Committee against Torture on 11 August 2014, asking the Committee to take interim measures to ensure that Morocco temporarily blocks the extradition process of Egyptian citizen, Sayed Omar Salem Omar, a senior member of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, whose members have been subject to a bloody crackdown by the Egyptian authorities for over a year.
Morocco: URGENT APPEAL - Arbitrary detention of Sahrawi channel Rasd TV journalist
On 17 July 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression to call on the Moroccan authorities to cease all acts of judicial and administrative harassment against Mahmoud El Haissan immediately. Saharawi channel Rasd TV journalist, El Haissan was arrested on 4 July and arbitrarily detained in the local prison of Al Akhal in El Aaiun.
Morocco: Human Rights Activist Abused in Custody at Fes Police Station
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