Morocco: RSF Holds Moroccan Authorities Responsible for Journalist's Survival

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) holds the Moroccan authorities responsible for what happens to Souleiman Raissouni, a journalist who has been jailed for more than a year and who is now very weak after 70 days on hunger strike. King Mohammed must urgently intercede so that he does not die in prison, RSF says.

The editor of the Arabic-language daily Akhbar al-Yaoum (The Day's News), Raissouni should have been tried yesterday in Casablanca but was unable to attend because of his very weak condition, with the result that the judges postponed the trial for the ninth time.

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