Moroccan journalists receive suspended jail sentences
2009-10-27
Ali Anouzla, editor of Moroccan newspaper Al Jarida Al Oula, on Monday (October 26th) received a one-year suspended sentence from a Rabat court for publishing an unsubstantiated article on the health of King Mohammed VI, MAP reported. Reporter Bouchra Eddou was given a three‐month suspended sentence on the same charges.
On October 15th, Driss Chahtane, editor of Arabic-language weekly al-Mishaal, was sentenced to one year in jail and a 10,000-dirham fine for an article on the same purported royal health issue.
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