Sustainable development goals

Covid-19: Moroccan courts hold videoconference hearings

Moroccan courts resorted to holding hearings via video conferences allowing defendants to see proceedings in a courtroom attended only by judges and lawyers as a protective measure against the coronavirus. Moroccan prison administration has already decided not to let inmates out to attend court hearings for fears of contagion after cases were found in jails. […]

Personal freedoms pit rights activists against Islamists

A debate has been triggered in the Moroccan civil society over the need to amend laws incriminating consensual sex between adults after a journalist has been arrested on charges of premarital sex and abortion. The arrest of Hajar Raissouni angered human rights activists at the national and international level who demanded her immediate release in […]

Moroccan Human Rights Council calls for protecting personal freedoms

The Moroccan Human Rights Council reacted to the arrest of a Moroccan journalist on charges of abortion and sex out-of-wedlock saying that the national laws should be amended to be compatible with the constitution. The arrest of Hajar Raissouni and her Sudanese fiancé as well as three other people for their alleged involvement in an […]