A Moroccan court convicted a rapper of using a song about police corruption to undermine the security services on Friday and sentenced him to a year in prison.
Rapper Mouad Belghouat, who goes by the name El-Haqed (The Enraged) was barred from making a final statement as part of his conviction.
Protecting hard-won gains in press freedom, improving safety for journalists and ending impunity for crimes against them, emerged as the main concerns of participants who attended UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day conference in Tunis, held on 4 and 5 May. Over 700 participants from almost 90 countries took part in the event, which ended today with the adoption of the Carthage Declaration.
On the occasion of the EU-Morocco Association Council meeting taking place today, 23 April, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) calls upon the European Union (EU) to continue to monitor the constitutional reforms that have recently taken place in Morocco.
(Casablanca) – Moroccan authorities should drop charges and release a rapper who has spent three weeks in pretrial detention on charges that he insulted the police in his songs and a video set to his music, Human Rights Watch said today.
