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Grietje
26-06-03, 00:40
Three Journalists Appear before Court in Morocco



RABAT, June 21 - Three journalists appeared Friday before the court of appeal of Rabat on charges of inciting to attempts to State security.

The three journalists represent two publications published in the Moroccan eastern city of Oujda.

The reporters are sued for “publishing stories inciting to crimes attempting to the State’s internal security.”


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Grietje
26-06-03, 01:28
Moroccan court starts hearing of journalist arrested in connection with Casablanca attacks probe
Morocco, Politics, 6/21/2003

The court of appeal of Rabat started on Friday the hearing of Mustapha Alaoui, a journalist sued for publishing a communiqu? whereby a group, "Assaika," claims responsibility for last May 16 attacks in Casablanca.

Mustapha Alaoui was accompanied during the two-hour hearing by his attorneys.

The journalist, who edits and manages the independent Al-Ousbou weekly in Arabic, had been interrogated by the judicial police, before being put in custody in a Sal? jail, near Rabat.

The public prosecutor of the Casablanca court of appeal had said in a release that the publication by the Al-Ousbou of the statement, which other publications abstained from circulating, was a violation of the law, especially the anti-terrorism law, enacted on May 29