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Read MoreCASABLANCA, Morocco: Five members of the “February 20” protest movement saw their sentences reduced yesterday to six months on appeal, after they were jailed for taking part in a non-authorized demonstration. The five young men...
Read MoreRABAT (AFP) A Moroccan court has jailed an activist with the February 20 protest movement for 12 years for taking part in an unauthorised demonstration, a human rights group said on Tuesday, slamming the ruling as an act of...
Read MoreMorocco and Political Reform Isobel Coleman While Morocco faces many of the same demographic, economic, and political challenges as its neighbors, it has managed to avoid the violent upheavals witnessed in Libya, Tunisia, and...
Read MoreForeign Policy Middle East Channel Posted By Adria Lawrence On February 20, 2011, Moroccan youth activists, inspired by protesters in Tunisia and Egypt, staged major demonstrations for democratic reform and “freedom and...
Read MoreAnniversaire du 20 février: Tiède au démarrage Faible mobilisation à Marrakech La foule n’était pas grande à Marrakech pour ce premier anniversaire du mouvement. A peine 400 participants ont répondu à l’appel du mouvement et...
Read MoreRABAT (AFP) Hundreds of demonstrators Sunday marked the first anniversary of a reform movement, born of last year’s Arab Spring, amid calls for more democracy in the Moroccan kingdom. In Casablanca, the country’s...
Read MoreBy PAUL SCHEMM Associated Press CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — A few thousand people gathered Sunday in Morocco’s cities to mark the one year anniversary of the North African kingdom’s local version of the Arab...
Read MoreBy Associated Press RABAT, Morocco — Morocco’s pro-democracy February 20 movement spearheaded the country’s version of the Arab Spring and sent the centuries-old monarchy scrambling to reform. Now, a year after its birth, the...
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