Denied due process, Moroccan editor sentenced to five years in prison

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for Moroccan newspaper editor Souleiman Raissouni’s immediate release pending his appeal against the five-year prison sentence he received from a Casablanca court on 9 July at the end of four-month trial marked by multiple irregularities.Held for more than a year, Raissouni was not in court to hear the judge find him guilty of sexual assault – a charge he has always denied – because he was extremely weak from a 93-day-old hunger st

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