A Moroccan human rights activist has been handed a three-year prison sentence on charges including “contempt of court” online, her lawyer said Wednesday, calling the ruling “unjust”.
Saida El Alami was sentenced by a Casablanca court on Tuesday night to “three years in prison and a fine of 20,000 dirhams” (about $2, 250) over posts she made on Facebook criticising “public policies”, lawyer Ahmed Ait Bennacer told AFP.
Bennacer said she was arrested on July 1 and had been prosecuted for “contempt of court”, “spreading false allegations” and “reporting an offence she knew had not occurred”.
The prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.
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“The charges against her are vague and imprecise,” said another defence lawyer, Ali Reda Ziane, adding that the legal team would advise her to appeal.
Alami was granted a royal pardon in July 2024 while serving a previous three-year sentence for “insulting a constituted body” since early 2022.
In October 2023, she had also been sentenced to eight months in prison for remarks she made during her first trial that were deemed offensive to King Mohammed VI and the Moroccan judiciary.
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