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Tag: journalist Hajar Raissouni
Moroccan journalist sentenced to one year in prison on abortion charges
A Moroccan court delivered a one-year prison sentence to a journalist and her fiancé, found guilty of having premarital sex and unlawful abortion. Hajar Raissouni ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More