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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. Asharq Al-Awsat
Rabat – Latifa Al-Arosni
Morocco’s prime minister revealed that King Mohammed VI has tasked Minister of State for Human Rights Mustapha Ramid of mulling measures on the implementation of the national democracy and human rights plan that has been adopted by the government.
PM Saadeddine Othmani said in his opening remarks at the cabinet session on Thursday that Ramid would “cooperate with all partners inside and outside the government” to accomplish his task.
The plan is a sign that Morocco is improving democratically and in human rights, said Othmani.
He expressed “strong willingness to overcome all difficulties and human rights-related problems.”
Ramid, a top official at the Justice and Development Party that is leading the coalition government, had for weeks boycotted cabinet sessions to protest the failure to publish the democracy and human rights plan in the official gazette.
But on Thursday, Ramid announced during a seminar on human rights that he would end his boycott after King Mohammed VI issued instructions to take the practical measures in implementing the government’s plan.
Ramid told the seminar, which was held at the economics and social sciences faculty in Casablanca, that the King has shown great interest in implementing the national plan on democracy that was announced by the minister of state on December 14.
The plan includes a series of measures which the state has pledged to undertake to improve the country’s human rights situation.
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Tunisian MP Yassine Ayari has accused the military court of wrongfully sentencing him over an alleged insult to the army.
“I am accused for words that were attributed to me, while the technical police confirmed that I did not write them and that I am innocent in this case,” he said when contacted by the Tunisian news agency (TAP).
The court on Thursday informed Ayari that he was sentenced on appeal to three months in prison over the post on Facebook.
Ayari was sentenced at first instance in this case to 16 days in prison.
According to him, the court has postponed until December 6 the examination of another case against him for “undermining the morale of the national army”, in accordance with Article 61 of the Penal Code.
He added that he contacted the Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives about the judgment rendered against him and the chief of staff of the Ministry of the Interior.
“I am ready to serve my sentence,” he said, adding that he had voluntarily given up his parliamentary immunity to assume full responsibility.
