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Moroccan security authorities at Rabat-Salé Airport on the morning of Thursday, June 4, barred human rights activist and historian Maati Monjib from leaving the country for the second time in less than three months, as he was preparing to travel to France to take part in an academic event.
«Once again, I have been illegally prevented from traveling», Monjib wrote in a post on his Facebook account. He added: «I entered the airport, obtained my ticket, and passed through customs, but the security officer in charge at the airport told me that my name was in the computer system. He then prevented me from entering the boarding area».
Monjib said he had received an invitation to deliver a lecture at a conference on the independence of Maghreb countries, organized by the university center Campus Condorcet in Paris to mark the 70th anniversary of Morocco’s and Tunisia’s independence.
He added that «this new decision is arbitrary, illegal, and unjustified. It caps six years of being denied freedom of movement, 11 years of close political and police surveillance, as well as five years since the seizure of my home, my car, and my bank account, and long years since I was dismissed from my job as a professor of political history, in addition to the ‘halt’ in the publication of my articles in the newspapers I used to work for, despite my continuing to send them».
Maati Monjib has been barred from leaving Morocco on several occasions in recent years, most recently on March 30, when he was prevented from traveling to France in response to an invitation from Paris 1 University to deliver academic lectures, despite having benefited from a royal pardon in July 2024.
