Morocco - Casablanca court sentences newspaper editor to a year in prison and a fine of 88 euros

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by the one-year jail sentence and fine of 1000 dirhams (88 euros) that a Casablanca court passed today on Rachid Nini, the editor of Al-Massae, one of Morocco's leading newspapers, at the end of a trial marked by judicial intransigence, repeated adjournments and a refusal to free him on bail. Held since 28 April, the newspaper editor was tried on charges of disinformation and attacking state institutions, public figures and the “security and integrity of (...)

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