Morocco - Newspaper edifor freed on completing one-year jail sentence

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is relieved that Rachid Nini, the editor of the Moroccan daily Al-Massae, was finally released in apparently good health on 28 April from Casablanca's Oukacha prison after completing a one-year jail sentence. The many requests for his early release were all rejected and he was made to serve the entire sentence. “Nini's conviction and sentencing under the criminal code, rather than the media law, was a major setback for media freedom in Morocco, especially as it came (...)

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