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Press Release
Morocco: AI Welcomes Morocco’s Release of Sahrawi Human Rights Defender after Monthlong Hunger Strike
Organization Remains Concerned for Eight Individuals Held as Prisoners of Conscience by Morocco
March 27, 2011
Press Release
Amnesty International Urges Morocco Not to Suppress Weekend Protests
Amnesty International Media ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseFriday, March 18, 2011Amnesty International Urges Morocco Not to Suppress Weekend ProtestsContact: AIUSA media relations office, 202-509-8194(Washington, D.C.) Amnesty International has called on the Moroccan authorities to allow mass peaceful demonstrations planned for this Sunday to go ahead peacefully, following a crackdown on similar protests last weekend. Thousands are expected to take to the streets across the country on Sunday to demand political and human rights reform, but there are fears the authorities may resort to heavy-handed tactics to quell the protests. Last Sunday, scores were injured and at least 120 were briefly detained when…
March 27, 2011
Press Release
Moroccan authorities must uphold freedom of assembly
Moroccan authorities must uphold freedom of assembly Amnesty International today condemned the Moroccan security forces’ violent dispersal of peaceful protestors in the capital, Rabat, on 21 and 22 February 2011. The organization is calling for the Moroccan authorities to investigate the incidents, which left many protestors needing hospital treatment. On the evening of 21 February 2011, security forces dispersed a group of around 30 people who had gathered in Bab El Had Square to demand reforms. Protestors reported being beaten and at least seven were hospitalized, including Khadija Riyadi, President of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (Association Marocaine des…
March 27, 2011
Press Release
Morocco: Sahrawi Activists Set to Be Tried on Friday
Amnesty International Press ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseThursday, October 14, 2010Amnesty International Calls on Morocco to Release Sahrawi Activists Set to Be Tried on FridayContact: Suzanne Trimel, 212-633-4150, [email protected](Washington, D.C.) -- Amnesty International today is calling on the Moroccan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release three Sahrawi activists set to face trial Friday for visiting refugee camps in Algeria run by the Polisario Front. “It is simply unacceptable that the Moroccan authorities are prosecuting these seven individuals, who include human rights defenders and former victims of enforced disappearance, for freely and openly visiting refugee camps and meeting with Polisario Front officials,” said…
March 27, 2011
Report
Morocco/Western Sahara: Broken Promises: The Equity and Reconciliation Commission and its Follow-up
This report provides an assessment by Amnesty International of the work of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission and the...
March 26, 2011
Report
Morocco/Western Sahara: No more half measures: Addressing enforced disappearances in Morocco and Western Sahara
In a significant break with the past in Morocco and Western Sahara, King Mohamed VI established the Equity and...
March 26, 2011
Report
Morocco: Continued detention of three brothers who “disappeared” in 1973 (STOP PRESS: released 30 December 1991)
Midhat Rene Bourequat, Bayazid Jacques Bourequat and Ali Auguste Bourequat, three brothers of French nationality, were...
March 26, 2011
Report
Annual Report: Morocco and Western Sahara 2010
Head of state King Mohamed VI Head of government Abbas El Fassi Death penalty abolitionist in practice Population 32 million Life expectancy 71 years Under-5 mortality (m/f) 43/29 per 1,000 Adult literacy 55.6 per cent Attacks increased on freedom of expression, association and assembly in relation to issues viewed as integral to the state's internal or external security. Human rights defenders, journalists seen as transcending red lines in reporting on the monarchy, proponents of self-determination in Western Sahara, and members of the unauthorized political organization Al-Adl wal-Ihsan faced harassment, arrests and prosecutions. Terrorism suspects were arrested and detained, at times…
March 19, 2011