King Mohammed VI has granted pardon to 5,654 detainees and gave orders to take all the necessary measures to strengthen the protection of inmates, particularly against the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, the Ministry of Justice announced this Sunday. “As part of the attention paid by the Sovereign to inmates in penitentiary and rehabilitation institutions, […]
Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a prominent opposition figure in Tunisia, has started a hunger strike to protest his exclusion from his own trial proceedings. Arrested in February 2023 over alleged state conspiracy charges, Ben Mbarek is one of dozens of political figures, journalists, and activists who have been detained in a crackdown on dissent under President […]
The political verdict rendered by the European Court of Justice, annulling the EU’s trade deals with Morocco, was an ineffectual decision that is akin to a sword thrust in water as far as the Sahara issue is concerned, said Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita. Bourita, who reiterated the same stance expressed in an official statement […]
