| 5,665,370 |
34.01325 |
-6.83255 |
Morocco |
|
A group of blind Moroccan graduates who chained themselves to a bridge to demand government jobs said they were beaten up by police on Tuesday, leaving some seriously injured. |
| 5,665,374 |
33.83 |
-4.83 |
Morocco |
|
An authorized gathering called by the local section of the Moroccan Human Rights Association was staged in Sefrou [some 220 km east of Rabat] yesterday to protest against the price increases of some vital commodities. The protest led to the arrest of 30 people, in addition to the material damage caused. Over to Zakia Belkafs and Mustapha Zahiri: |
| 5,665,378 |
34.0531 |
-6.79846 |
Morocco |
|
Islamist detainees in eight Moroccan prisons have started a 24-hour hunger strike in protest at what they said was bad treatment by Sale prison administration towards Islamist detainees. |
| 5,665,382 |
35.29369 |
-2.93833 |
Morocco |
|
6 November2007- BBC Mon: About 6,000 people took part in the sit-in staged on Tuesday [6 November] morning in front of the border post of Bab Melilla, following a call by the committee of the coordination of civil society, to protest against the visit o |
| 5,665,387 |
27.1418 |
-13.18797 |
Morocco |
|
In Western Sahara, Saharan protesters have launched a large-scale campaign to tear down Moroccan flags and replace them with the national Saharan flag in Laayoune. In the meantime, the Moroccan authorities have continued their repression of demonstrations calling for the independence of the Western Sahara and they have carried out a number of raids and clashed with Saharans. |
| 5,665,390 |
34.0531 |
-6.79846 |
Morocco |
|
Morocco's anti-terrorist tribunal has jailed 15 Islamists for between one and four years in three separate cases on conviction of terrorist activity or connections, the MAP news agency reported Friday. The special court in Sale near Rabat sentenced seven people late Thursday to between one and two years in prison after the prosecution accused them of links to May 2003 attacks in Casablanca, which killed 45 people including 12 suicide bombers. |
| 5,665,395 |
34.01325 |
-6.83255 |
Morocco |
|
A Moroccan court has convicted 50 radical Islamists of plotting bombings and robberies and jailed them for up to 25 years. The defendants were members of the Ansar el Mehdi "Mehdi Partisans" group, and shortly after they were rounded up in 2006 the authorities seized explosives and laboratory equipment. |
| 5,665,399 |
33.59278 |
-7.61916 |
Morocco |
|
The detainees of the so-called Salafia Jihadia, held in Wing 6, Oukacha jail, Casablanca, yesterday [8 Jan] went on a hunger strike as a protest against what they called "the irresponsible practices of the director of Oukacha local jail and repeated violations". |
| 5,665,404 |
33.68607 |
-7.38298 |
Morocco |
|
Common law prisoners in El Mohammadia local prison staged what looked like a jail riot the day before yesterday, Saturday [19 Jan], from the early hours of the day to 2200 pm [local time], inside their cells. They refused to leave the cells to go and eat, to take exercise in the jail yard and to receive visits. They wanted the king's public prosecutor to come over to inform him about the "serious" problems - as one of the inmates put it besetting them inside the walls of the jail. The situation required the intervention of royal gendarmerie, police and Oukacha jail rapid intervention units. |
| 5,665,407 |
34.01325 |
-6.83255 |
Morocco |
|
Authorities in Morocco arrested 23 people on Monday in a raid on a suspected radical Islamic terrorist cell in the country. Among those arrested were the leaders of the organization, which police said had been planning terrorist attacks in a number of different Moroccan regions. Also arrested were the heads of two islamic political parties that had only recently been founded. |
