Moroccan rapper jailed over video



Moroccan rapper jailed over video (via AFP)

A Moroccan court on Friday sentenced one of the country’s most famous rappers to one year in prison over a video critical of the police, judicial officials told AFP. Mouad Belghouat, 24, is known for his criticism of King Mohammed VI and was arrested on March 28 by plainclothes officers. His Casablanca…

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King’s message read at bombing memorial ceremony



Morocco remembers 2011 Marrakech bomb victims (via AFP)

Relatives and friends of the 17 people killed in a Marrakech cafe bombing a year ago on Saturday marked the first anniversary of their death by releasing a dove in memory of each of them. The attack at the Argana cafe on the former imperial city’s famed Jamaa el-Fna square killed eight French tourists…

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