The Moulay Abdellah Amghar festival in El Jadida was overshadowed by a tragic incident in which a 13-year-old boy was assaulted by a group of young men who allegedly drugged him before committing their crime. The young victim is now suffering from serious physical and psychological complications, while an investigation is underway to identify and apprehend the perpetrators.
Two rights groups are urging a UK parliamentary inquiry into the government’s role in the Moroccan conviction of British-Moroccan citizen Lee Murray, who is serving a 25-year sentence for the 2006 Securitas robbery in Kent. They allege the UK «the UK Government bypassed its own courts, exported a British citizen’s trial to a foreign jurisdictions and denied him the legal protections».