Morocco - Environmental citizen-journalist gets 10 months in prison

Reporters without borders

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the 10-month jail sentence that was passed last week on citizen-journalist Mohamed Attaoui on a spurious charge of “working as a local official despite being suspended” and calls for his conditional release pending the outcome of his appeal. “The authorities have been harassing Attaoui for years, above all because of his commitment to defending the environment,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Now he has again been arrested and convicted (...)

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