News Stream May 05,2020

Morocco receives Chinese anti-aircraft defense system FD-2000B

The Royal Armed Forces (FAR) have received the first batch of the Chinese long-range anti-aircraft defense system with a Chinese FD-2000B battery, ordered in 2017, according to the Spanish website Defensa.com. The first battery for the FD-2000B system was received in the middle of this year, and was activated a few weeks ago in Morocco’s […]

Activists denounce death sentences handed by Algeria to cover killing of Jamal Ben Smail

Algeria has handed 49 death sentences to people convicted of killing Jamal Ben Smail in a town in the Kabylie region, in a verdict denounced as sham by rights activists. Ben Smail was killed by a mob in the village of Larbaa Naith Irathen accusing him of arson as the region faced a brutal wildfire […]

Morocco adopts bill on alternative sentences to reduce congestion in prisons

The upper and lower houses of the Moroccan parliament have both approved a bill that introduces alternative sentences with the aim of reducing overpopulation in Morocco’s prisons. The bill was advocated by the government as a solution to overcrowded Moroccan prisons. The prison population in Morocco surpassed 158% of capacity across the country’s 76 prisons, […]