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Criminalizing Reporting – MENA

Trials

Journalist and activist Omar Radi. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Moroccan Journalist Subjected to ‘Abuse of Process,’ New TrialWatch Report Finds

Journalist Said Boudur released after two months suspended prison sentence for 'contempt of court’ on March 10, 2021 in Oran, Algeria. The verdict has just been pronounced by the judge of the court of Fellaoucen. Photo by Hamza Nouhara/ABACAPRESS.COM

Statement on the Trial of Said Boudour in Algeria

Pre-Trial Proceedings Against Maâti Monjib in Morocco Raise Concerns

Portrait of Emna Charki, a young Tunisian blogger prosecuted by the courts for a Facebook post considered as "inciting hatred between religions and calling for discrimination", she faces 3 years in prison, verdict on 13 July. Here in her apartment that is being moved, her landlord does not want to host "kafir" ("miscreant"), she proudly displays her tattoo made in 2012 "out law" ("out of law"). On 14 July she was sentenced to six months in prison for inciting hatred between religions and fined 2,000 dinars (620 euros) for violation of the sacred. Her lawyers have appealed. Tunisia on 12 July 2020. Photo by Nicolas Fauque/Images de Tunisie/ABACAPRESS.COM

Statement on the Conviction of Emna Chargui in Tunisia

Reports

The trial of Moroccan investigative journalist Omar Radi, who was convicted of national security offences and rape and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, “involved serious violations of international fair trial standards,” a TrialWatch report that gave Radi’s trial a grade of ‘D'.

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The trial of journalist Omar Radi for ‘insulting the judiciary’ based on a single tweet about a judge’s ruling did not meet basic international human rights standards for assuring a fair trial.

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At Hajar Raissouni’s trial on charges of non-marital intercourse and abortion, Ms. Raissouni was denied critical rights protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including her right to a hearing before an independent and impartial tribunal.

See the Fairness Report