Tag: Penal Code

Algeria: European Parliament Slams Press Freedom Violations and Calls for release of Ihsane El-Kadi

May 12, 2023

The European Parliament has decried the Algerian authorities’ crackdown on media freedom, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all those arbitrarily detained for ... Read More

Geneva: NGO Decries Abuses Committed by Algerian Regime against Hirak Activists

July 9, 2022

The International Observatory for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights has denounced the serious human rights violations, repression and abuses committed by Algerian authorities against pro-democracy ... Read More

Morocco heading towards lifting some restrictions on abortion

May 16, 2015

Morocco is about to reform the law on abortion by legalizing the procedure in case a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, in ... Read More

Morocco: Abortion Regulating Text in the Pipeline

March 20, 2015

King Urges Stakeholders to Speed up Action After lengthy debates on the controversial issue of abortion or voluntary interruption of pregnancy, it became clear that ... Read More

Suicide of Raped Teenager Leads to Major Breakthrough in Moroccan Penal Code

January 25, 2014

Almost two years after the suicide in March 2012 of a Moroccan teenager who had been forced to marry her rapist, Moroccan MPs unanimously passed ... Read More