One week after the national march in Casablanca that took place last Sunday at Victory square in Derb Omar, Al Adl Wal Ihsane will take part in another march scheduled for Sunday, 15th of July in Rabat, denouncing the heavy sentences Hirak Rif detainees were handed down by Casablanca's Appeal court. The Jamâa is going to show solidarity with the detainees of Hirak, sentenced on June 26, to prison terms ranging from 1 to 20 years in prison, reports Hespress. Hassan Bennajeh, a
The Al Hoceima first instance court postponed on Monday, 2nd of July, the hearing of eight Hirak activists to the 8th of July, says Arabic-language newspaper Alyaoum 24 on Tuesday. The detainees were arrested in a series of protests that took place recently in the region. They were arrested while protesting against the heavy sentences handed down by the Casablanca Appeal Court, last week, to 53 Hirak detainees. According to the same source, protesters were accused of participating to an
After Hirak detainees received heavy sentences, ranging from 20 to 2 years, their families and some of their lawyers took their disappointment to social media to denounce the court’s decision.
Moroccan authorities have banned Dutch politicians and MEP Kati Piri and the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Lilianne Ploumen, from traveling to the Rif region as part of an "investigation commission", said by the news agency EFE. In a statement issued yesterday morning from Morocco, Kati Piri and Lilianne Ploumen, both members of the Labor Party, indicate that the local authorities "prevented [them] from accessing the city of Al Hoceïma", where they
33 companies were awarded, Friday 30th of March, by the «Product of the Year Morocco», a consumer voted award for product innovation established in 1987 in France to guide consumers to the best products in the market, and to reward manufacturers for quality and innovation, said a communiqué issued by the award's organizers. The event held in Casablanca is the first edition to take part in Morocco examining products that are sold in the Kingdom's market. To name the best ones
Traveling is a passion for Abdelhamid Serghini. The 31-year-old Moroccan national has chosen to make a living out of his talent. Now, he is a 3D graphic designer based in Doha (Qatar) and a globetrotter who travels the world whenever he has the chance to.
In a security alert issued on Thursday, 15th of March, the US Consulate General in Casablanca urged American citizens in Morocco to aviod traveling to Jerada. Based on Media reports, the American mission in the Kingdom wrote that «numerous demonstrations and protests continue to occur in Jerada on a regular basis and there have been reports of confrontations between security forces and demonstrators». The same alert acknowledged that these protests are not targeting US
With his top model wife, Irving Penn photographed the blue people in Guelmim in an extraordinary exhibition. Meanwhile, Peter Fordham preferred to keep his visit to Morocco a secret that was later discovered in an antique shop in England.
Between 1924 and 1955, Bousbir served as a red-light district for soldiers in the French Casablanca. Stuffed with female sex workers, the quarter was a refuge for the military personnel fed up with their compulsory bachelorhood.
Mediterrania Capital Partners, a Barcelona-based private equity fund, is to acquire through its third fund (MC III) a stake in ‘Travaux Généraux de Construction de Casablanca (TGCC)', a building and real-estate company, announced the company in a communiqué sent to Yabiladi on Monday. The new acquisition is set to support the company, founded in 1991 by Mohammed Bouzoubaa and operating in Morocco and Sub-Saharan Africa, through its expansion plan in both the