Aida Alami
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 08:16
Violent interrogation methods are still widely used by the Moroccan authorities to crush dissent and forcefully extract confessions from detainees, even though the government has pledged for years to eradicate torture, a new report by the human rights group Amnesty International says.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 06:45
After landing at the Rabat airport in 2010, Zakaria Moumni, a former kickboxing world champion, was distressed when he was taken aside by security agents, arrested, blindfolded and taken to a secret facility. The facility where Moumni was taken had been established years earlier as a black site for the CIA to hold “enhanced interrogations” of terrorism suspects.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 15:57
The pardoning of a paedophile by Morocco's king last month ignited a public outcry, causing some who had been apolitical to demand radical changes in the country and a serious reform of its justice system.