One Moroccan journalist convicted, four others on trial

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is very disturbed by the four-jail sentence that Abdelkabir al Horr, the founder and editor of the Rassdmaroc news website, received on appeal in Rabat on 1 February in connection with his coverage of the “Hirak” protest movement in Morocco’s northern Rif region.RSF is also concerned about the trial that began in Rabat on 25 January of four journalists accused of publishing confidential information about suspected corruption within the Moroccan Retirement

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