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Morocco - Latest Press Releases
Morocco: Italian "Extraordinary Rendition" Victim Still Held In Morocco Based On Tortured Confession
MOR - News | 25 June 2009
Human rights groups today asked two U.N. Special Rapporteurs to investigate the case of Abou Elkassim Britel, an Italian citizen and victim of the CIA's unlawful "extraordinary rendition" program who is currently held in a Moroccan prison based on a confession coerced from him through torture. The American Civil Liberties Union and Alkarama for Human Rights requested that the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism investigate the circumstances of Britel's forced disappearance, rendition, detention and torture, and raise his case with the governments of the United States, Morocco, Pakistan and Italy.
Morocco: Mobilization around the International Convention against enforced disappearance
MOR - News | 18 March 2009
Since the beginning of March 2009, and in the context of the international campaign for the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance , the FEMED (Euro-Med Federation against Enforced Disappearance), the ICAED (International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearance), Aim for Human Rights, the AMDH (Association Marocaine des Droits Humains - Moroccan Association for Human Rights), the OMDH (Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains - Moroccan Organization for Human Rights), the FMVJ (Forum Marocain Vérité et Justice - Moroccan Forum Truth and Justice), and the Coordinating Committee of Families are mobilizing to urge Morocco to ratify this international instrument.
Morocco UPR before the Human Rights Council: When the essentials are hidden
MOR - News | 12 June 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, June 12, 2008
The current session of the Human Rights Council is dedicated to the adoption of the final reports of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the countries examined in April and May 2008. Alkarama expressed in its report many concerns. The plenary devoted to the final report of Morocco took place on June 9, 2008. Alkarama and the Arab Commission of Human Rights gave a short speech reproduced below.
The current session of the Human Rights Council is dedicated to the adoption of the final reports of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the countries examined in April and May 2008. Alkarama expressed in its report many concerns. The plenary devoted to the final report of Morocco took place on June 9, 2008. Alkarama and the Arab Commission of Human Rights gave a short speech reproduced below.
Morocco: Arrest of Mr. Asfari, Saharawi human rights defender
MOR - News | 18 April 2008
Al Karama for Human Rights, 18 April 2008
Al Karama was informed of the arrest on 13 April 2008, in Marrakesh, of Mr. Asfari, Sahrawi human rights defender, by plainclothes police officers. Mr. Ennaama ASFARI 38-year-old Saharawi human rights defender and co-chair of CORELSO (Committee for the respect of freedoms and human rights in Western Sahara) lives in France. He had visited Morocco on 25 January 2008 for family reasons.