Morocco: Leaders of a protest movement in 2016, were sentenced to up to 20 years

Leader of the protest movement Nasser Zefzafi

Leader of the protest movement Nasser Zefzafi

Casblanca … News Time

A Moroccan court has heard the arrest leaders of protest movement in the country in 2016 for 20 years. The leaders of this protest movement demonstrated against the government Al Hoceima, a city located in the north of the country Rif, they demanded the development of the area, employment of people and the end of corruption. The prominent leaders of this movement have been sentenced to imprisonment in Nasser Zefzafi, Nabil Ahmjiq, Ouassim Boustati and Samir Ighid, to sabotage state peace and order.

Casblanca’s appeal court has convicted 53 people for a year to 20 years in prison for protesting protest demonstrations on Tuesday. And 5, 5 thousand Dhamram 450 (Euro, 520) on them have been fined. The court has ruled in its absence against all the defendants. An accused is not being blamed for not condemning the activities of a Moroccan journalistist Hamid el Mahdaoui to harm the state’s security. The protesters have also been prosecuted against them. They are likely to be punished on Thursday. The Judge Judge heard the verdicts of protest against protesters so their dear ones and friends present there began to scream. Law enforcement has ruled the verdict as a courtesy and said that they would appeal to their clients to appeal against the penalties.

A lawyer, Souad Brahma, said that these are very strict sentences. Like the independence of the judiciary, it has failed to respect human rights and essential freedoms. The leader of protest movement Nasser Zefzafi has boycotted in the last days of his trial as his other counterparts and he refused to record his final statement in the court. During the protest demonstrations, I kept the youth warm from their flattering habits. He is 39 years old and he is also unemployed. In May 2017, he allegedly forbids an imam mosque in Al Hoceima from speech and they were arrested after the appeal of further protests.

In October 2016, a protest demonstration began after a fatal death in the action of a fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri’s security forces in the northern city of Al Hoceima. And seeing, they were spreading to other areas. Security officials had killed 31-year-old fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri under a truck. Then protesters demanded justice to kill him. It is clear that most of the people in the Al Hoceima and the Al-Rif area are inhabited. Their Morocco’s central government has been strained for a long time. In the same area, in the year 2011, people affected by Arab Bahari Movement, local people had demonstrated protest for several days after which King Mohammed VI of Morocco handed over some of his options to the elected government. After May 2017, more than 400 people have been arrested from the area to the jails and cases are being run against them.

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