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Morocco: Beacon of Freedom of Speech?

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 @ 19:45 UTC

by Hisham

Countries:: Morocco
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Media, Protest
Languages:: Arabic, English

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Maroc : Le flambeau de la liberté d'expression ?...

Moroccan blogger Badr Al'Hamry on Agora [Ar], expresses his solidarity with Idriss Shahtan, director of Al Mishaal weekly newspaper, and president of the Khenifra branch of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights [Ar] who will stand accused of publishing a dossier that is discourteous to a relative of the king of Morocco in a court trial on June 16. The blogger quotes a declaration by an ad-hoc solidarity committee [Ar] and links to several other solidarity web pages [Ar].

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