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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Morocco releases imprisoned journalists after pardons from King Mohamed VI

RABAT, Morocco — Three journalists who were sentenced to years in prison after writing about corruption and abuse of power in Morocco were released Monday after receiving pardons from King Mohammed VI. Human rights activists applauded the pardons, but said the move didn’t exonerate what they have called the politically motivated manner in which Moroccan authorities pursued and prosecuted the …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Ugly scenes mar Argentina's 2-1 defeat by Morocco at Olympics as fans boo national anthem and throw FLARES, cups and bottles at South American players amid Enzo Fernandez racism storm

Daily Mail

There was total chaos at the Olympics on Wednesday as the anger from Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez engaging in a racist singalong with the Argentinian national team spilled into the Games in France, with missiles forcing their game with Morocco to be suspended. Riot police were pictured after Moroccan fans invaded the pitch after Argentina's last goal Pitch invaders had …

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5 months ago

Moroccan ex-minister who defended government critics sentenced to five years

Associated Press

RABAT, Morocco — Mohamed Ziane, an ex-Moroccan minister of human rights, was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday in a corruption case that his attorney described as retribution for outspokenness and work defending political prisoners. The group described the case against Ziane as “purely political, aiming to humiliate and subjugate the man and discourage him from expressing his …

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1 year ago

Opinion: With nearly 70 journalists killed, who will be left to cover the Gaza war?

LA Times

A mural of slain of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen abu Akleh in Gaza City in May 2022. International journalists, including myself, assembled in tents at El Arish crossing, on the Egyptian-Palestinian border, hoping to directly cover the news in the Gaza Strip. In fact, faced with this terrible number of journalist deaths, on Dec.15, five U.S. senators wrote a letter …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Moroccans protest after Algeria acknowledges deadly shooting at a group on water scooters

Associated Press

ALGIERS, Algeria — Long-standing tensions between Morocco and Algeria have moved up a notch with a deadly confrontation at sea last week between the Algerian Coast Guard and several men on water scooters. Algeria’s Defense Ministry has acknowledged that its forces fired on a group of people on water scooters who strayed into Algerian waters from Morocco last Tuesday, and …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Nick Cannon praises ‘not human’ ex-wife Mariah Carey: ‘She’s a gift from God’

The Independent

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2 years, 1 month ago

Spanish minister under growing pressure over border deaths

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — Spain’s interior minister is coming under increased pressure to be more transparent about how Spanish security forces responded to a June storming of its border with Morocco that led to the deaths of at least 23 migrants in the North African enclave of Melilla. Grande-Marlaska has denied the allegations, claiming that none of the deaths occurred on …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Netherlands can deport Moroccan migrants in exchange for silence on human rights

NL Times

The relationship between the Netherlands and Morocco, which has for a long time been strained, is becoming closer. However, in return, the Netherlands must no longer be as outspoken about human rights abuses in Morocco, according to the NRC. This stemmed from the Netherlands' criticisms of human rights issues in the North African country, including crackdowns on press freedom and …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Moroccan court sentences 33 migrants to jail over crossing

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nearly three dozen migrants were …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Moroccan probe finds 23 Melilla border dead likely ‘suffocated’

Al Jazeera

Morocco state-backed group says 23 migrants likely died of ‘mechanical asphyxiation’ during border crossing attempt. At least 23 migrants who died last month in a mass attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco likely “suffocated”, the state-backed National Human Rights Council of Morroco has said. Five days after the incident, Human Rights Watch cited “reports that the …

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2 years, 5 months ago

EU, Morocco renew migration deal after Spanish border deaths

Associated Press

RABAT, Morocco — The European Commission vowed Friday to step up its work with Morocco to fight human smugglers who are using “new, extremely violent methods” — a move that comes two weeks after 23 people died at the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson and Spanish Interior Minister Fernando …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Letter to the editor - July 7, 2022

The Hindu

The Moroccan Sahara issue is settled historically, socially and legally On June 14 2022, your newspaper published an article entitled “Explained | The Western Sahara dispute and why Algeria-Spain ties have soured” which we consider to be lacking credibility and accuracy about the history of the Sahara. The article was based on a unilateral opinion about the Moroccan Sahara issue …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Spain-Morocco Border Migrant Death: Death Toll Rises To 23, Spain PM Blames Traffickers

News 18

The number of people who were killed after they tried to scale a border fence between Morocco and a Spanish enclave in North Africa on June 23 rose to 23 as human rights organizations in Spain and Morocco called on both countries to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths. “Although the migrants may have acted violently in their attempt to …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Thousands protest migrant deaths at Spain-Morocco border

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — Thousands of people in several Spanish cities protested Friday over the deaths of at least 23 migrants last week at the frontier between the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa and Morocco, amid growing calls for an independent, cross-border investigation. “The least we can do is voice our outrage and demand that the Moroccan state stop acting …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Thousands protest migrant deaths at Spain-Morocco border

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In one video shared by the Moroccan Human Rights …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border

Associated Press

MADRID — Spain’s prime minister has defended the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least 23 people died as “an attack on Spain’s borders.” “We must remember that many of these migrants attacked Spain’s borders with …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Deaths rise to 23 from mass attempt to enter Spanish enclave

Associated Press

MADRID — The number of people who were killed after they tried to scale a border fence between Morocco and a Spanish enclave in North Africa rose to 23 Saturday as human rights organizations in Spain and Morocco called on both countries to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths. “Although the migrants may have acted violently in their attempt to …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Rights groups call for probe into deaths during Melilla crossing

Al Jazeera

Death toll from attempted mass crossing from Morocco to Spanish enclave rises to 23 as Pedro Sanchez decries ‘attack on territorial integrity’. Human rights groups in Morocco and Spain have called for an investigation into the deaths of 23 people during an attempted mass crossing into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Africa. The Moroccan Association for Human Rights, …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Russia-Ukraine latest: Ukraine may soon ‘not exist on world map’

Al Jazeera

Latest updates June 15, 2022: Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warns Ukraine ‘might not exist at all’ within a couple of years. 15 Jun 2022 - 21:55 GMT ‘Bravery, resilience, determination’: New $1bn for Ukraine fight President Zelenskyy said he was “grateful” for a new American arms package to Kyiv after speaking to President Biden. 15 Jun 2022 - 15:05 …

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3 years, 7 months ago

As migrants continue to reach Ceuta, Spanish pushback hardens

Al Jazeera

Madrid ups border security in the North African enclave, returns thousands to Morocco, and fires tear gas into the buffer zone. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez meanwhile promised to “restore order” after the unprecedented surge in arrivals, telling Parliament on Wednesday that about 4,800 migrants and refugees had already been sent back to Morocco. “The lack of border control by …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Sahrawis betrayed again as Trump bats for Morocco

The Hindu

IN his latest transactional deal just weeks before leaving office, United States President Donald Trump persuaded Morocco to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Trump tweeted on December 10 that he had recognised Moroccan sovereignty over western Sahara and that “our two GREAT friends, Israel and Morocco, have agreed to full diplomatic relations”. Within days of Trump’s announcement, the U.S. government …

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4 years ago

Microsoft’s iron cage: Prison surveillance and e-carceration

Al Jazeera

Tech corporations are expanding the scope of surveillance across the correctional pipeline, but who pays the price? Microsoft has also worked on electronic monitoring solutions with partners for persons under “community supervision”, and has its own Microsoft-branded “Digital Prison Management Solution”. Taken together, Microsoft and its partners’ carceral solutions cover the entire correctional pipeline, from “juvenile delinquency” to pretrial and …

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Morocco releases imprisoned journalists after pardons from King Mohamed VI

Ugly scenes mar Argentina's 2-1 defeat by Morocco at Olympics as fans boo national anthem and throw FLARES, cups and bottles at South American players amid Enzo Fernandez racism storm

Moroccan ex-minister who defended government critics sentenced to five years

Opinion: With nearly 70 journalists killed, who will be left to cover the Gaza war?

Moroccans protest after Algeria acknowledges deadly shooting at a group on water scooters

Nick Cannon praises ‘not human’ ex-wife Mariah Carey: ‘She’s a gift from God’

Spanish minister under growing pressure over border deaths

Netherlands can deport Moroccan migrants in exchange for silence on human rights

Moroccan court sentences 33 migrants to jail over crossing

Moroccan probe finds 23 Melilla border dead likely ‘suffocated’

EU, Morocco renew migration deal after Spanish border deaths

Letter to the editor - July 7, 2022

Spain-Morocco Border Migrant Death: Death Toll Rises To 23, Spain PM Blames Traffickers

Thousands protest migrant deaths at Spain-Morocco border

Thousands protest migrant deaths at Spain-Morocco border

Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border

Deaths rise to 23 from mass attempt to enter Spanish enclave

Rights groups call for probe into deaths during Melilla crossing

Russia-Ukraine latest: Ukraine may soon ‘not exist on world map’

As migrants continue to reach Ceuta, Spanish pushback hardens

Sahrawis betrayed again as Trump bats for Morocco

Microsoft’s iron cage: Prison surveillance and e-carceration