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Human rights group alarmed over treatment of journalists in Morocco

Protesters calling for the release of detained journalists Omar Radi and Suleiman Raissouni, in Rabat, Morocco, 25 May 2021. AP - Mosa'ab Elshamy

Morocco is jailing journalists after flawed trials for non-political crimes, particularly sexual ones, in order to silence them – part of a range of "techniques of repression", according to a statement from the organisation Human Rights Watch.

"Moroccan authorities have developed and refined a full manual of techniques to muzzle the opposition, even as it claims to be simply applying the law against them in a neutral manner," Human Rights Watch said.

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