The repression against the dissident votes crossed an additional level in Morocco with the arrest in early March of four members of the family of the Youtubeur Hicham Jerando. Installed in Canada, this very active Moroccan on social networks intends to denounce in his publications the “Corruption” which would be guilty of public figures and senior officials of the kingdom.
If the Moroccan authorities are customary of the intimidation measures exerted on the entourage of defenders of freedom of expression, they had not, so far, proceeded to the simultaneous arrest of several members of the family of a dissident. However, this is what happened with the intervention of the National Brigade of the Casablanca Judicial Police, which challenged and referred 1er March before the Aïn Sebaa court Hicham Jerando’s sister, her husband, the nephew and the niece of the Youtubeur, Malak, 13 years old and suffering from a rare disease.
All four – as well as a local activist of the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) present at the time of the thread – are prosecuted for complicity in an outrageous body, dissemination of false facts for infringement of the private life of others and participation in the offense of threats. The minor, who has since been placed in a child protection center, would have bought electronic chips to help her family communicate with Hicham Jerando, appointed as “Principal suspect on the run abroad” in the prosecutor’s press release, that The world was able to consult.
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