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Morocco - Latest Press Releases
Morocco: Alkarama highlights need to follow through positive developments with legislative changes
MOR - News | 01 October 2012
In November 2011, the UN Committee against Torture reviewed Morocco, and requested it provide information about several urgent issues that needed to be addressed within one year. Alkarama, having submitted information in view of the review, decided to provide further follow up information regarding its key priorities for the country: criminalization and imprescriptibility of torture and basic legal safeguards, the use of confessions extracted under torture and the excessive anti-terrorism measures, as well as secret detention.Morocco: Abdessamad Bettar in critical state following 80 day hunger strike
MOR - News | 04 July 2012
Alkarama expresses serious concern about the state of Abdessamad Bettar's health. Bettar is now hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Mohamed V hospital in Safi after enduring 80 days of hunger strike. He began the strike in April to protest the unjust nature of his trial and the torture he was subjected to in prison.
Morocco: Mohamed Hajib arbitrarily detained, subjected to torture and mistreatment in prison
MOR - News | 15 June 2012
M. Mohamed Hajib, a 31 year-old German-Morrocan man, is detained at Morocco's Salé prison where the torture and mistreatment to which he has been subjected is continually escalating.
Morocco: Sofiane Alazami has been found
MOR - News | 23 May 2012
Sofiane Alazami, who disappeared in the night of 5 through 6 May 2012 on his way to Casablanca, has finally been found.
On 21 May 2012, a person calling themselves an official of the psychiatric hospital of Ar-Razi in Salé called his father to inform him that his son was being held in the establishment. The same day, his father went to find him.
Morocco: Sofiane Alazami, victim of enforced disappearance
MOR - News | 16 May 2012
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Sofiane Alazami left Fez to go to Casablanca while looking for work. He called his mother on 5 May around 4:00 a.m. to let her know that he was in Casablanca but that he would soon return to Fez.
Morocco: Rachid Niny, editor of Al Massae daily, was released after serving his full sentence
MOR - News
- 01 May 2012
Morocco: Mourad Aibous tortured and accused of manufacturing explosives
MOR - News
- 13 April 2012
Morocco: Abdelfattah Dihaj sentenced on the basis of confessions extracted under torture
MOR - News
- 10 April 2012
Morocco: Mohammad Hasan al-Sharif al-Kattani released
MOR - News
- 07 February 2012