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"Violating Sacred Values" in Morocco: Free Speech with an Exception

A simple caricature by a cartoonist and a four-minute video featuring an activist expressing his dissent are arguably some of today’s most common mediums for political expression. In post-constitutional reform and post–parliamentary-election ...

A Movement and a Regime: One Year Later • Talk Morocco

What began as a nationwide call for protests during the earlier days of February 2011 in Morocco has turned into the loudest voice of dissent in North African

A year after it changed Moroccan politics, the Feb. 20 democracy movement struggles for a role | The Republic

RABAT, Morocco - Morocco's pro-democracy February 20 movement spearheaded the country's version of the Arab Spring and sent the centuries-old monarchy scrambling to reform. Now, a year after its birth, the youth-led group appears to have lost its...

A year on, Morocco's democracy movement founders

(02-18) 06:40 PST RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- Morocco's pro-democracy February 20 movement spearheaded the country's version of the Arab Spring and sent the centuries-old monarchy scrambling to reform. Now, a year after its...

Morocco’s democracy movement to mark anniversary with nationwide protests

Associated Press

RABAT, Morocco (AP) â Morocco's pro-democracy February 20 movement spearheaded the country's version of the Arab Spring and sent the centuries-old monarchy scrambling to reform. Now, a year after its birth, the youth-led group appears to have lost...

Morocco: Busted for Posting Caricatures of the King on Facebook :: Elites TV

On February 7, 2012, Walid Bahomane appeared before a court in the Moroccan capital Rabat. The 18-year-old is accused of “defaming Morocco's sacred values” by posting pictures and videos on Facebook mocking king Mohammed VI of Morocco. This...

Feb20, Feb19, 20fev, Rabat, Morocco

Samia Errazzouki: RT @HasnaAnkal: Pict of #Feb20 sit-in in #Rabat against political detentions in #Morocco #Maroc Via @Larbi_org http://t.co/DgsdoY1n

Morocco: A January of revolt and repression for the new government - Anarkismo

The struggles of the Moroccan people have continued with force during the month of January. Labour struggles, peasant struggles, the unemployed, the Amazigh [Berber] movement, the struggle in support of political prisoners and against the impunity...

Festival de Résistance et d'Alternatives #feb20 مهرجان المقاومة و البدائل - MAMFAKINCH

Festival de Résistance et d'Alternatives #feb20 مهرجان المقاومة و البدائل

Abdelsamad Haydour, Moroccan Who Insulting King Mohammed VI In Video, Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison

RABAT, Morocco — A Moroccan court has convicted a student of "violating the sacred values" of the kingdom and sentenced him to three years in prison after a video posted online showed him criticizing the king, the state news agency reported...

Morocco May Not Be An Exception | Fair Observer° - Digg

Despite modest constitutional reforms by the Moroccan King following the start of the "Arab Spring", Morocco is not an exception to the regional political upheaval and could soon see its own uprising, argues Fouad Oujani.

#Feb20 أولى الصور من مسيرة حركة 20 فبراير بطنجة. - MAMFAKINCH

#Feb20 أولى الصور من مسيرة حركة 20 فبراير بطنجة.

Morocco: Busted for Posting Caricatures of the King on Facebook - Global Voices Advocacy

Defending Free Speech Online

#20feb militant disparu à Rabat - MAMFAKINCH

#20feb militant disparu à Rabat

In Morocco, The Arab Spring's Mixed Bounty | WBUR & NPR

On Feb. 20, 2011, Moroccans took to the streets in protest in a country considered one of the most stable in the region. King Mohammed VI acted quickly, offering constitutional reforms and early elections. But progress toward democracy has also...

Feb20, Rabat, Now, Morocco, Rabat Morocco

montasserdrissi: #Feb20s protest #now in #Rabat, #Morocco. http://t.co/LERFEdOE