Two Moroccan journalists kept in unlawful pre-trial detention since 2019 and 2020 have entered a hunger strike after their trials have been postponed and their provisional release requests rejected for at least the tenth time. Journalists Suleiman Raissouni and Omar Radi started hunger strike in a Moroccan prison. (Photo: Reporters Without Borders)Omar Radi and Suleiman Raissouni have been accused of sexual assault - charges increasingly brought by the Morocco against its critics - especially journalists and activists. Editor-in-chief Suleiman Raissouni, the second journalist now on hunger strike, has been detained since June 2020. He is one of at least five Moroccon journalists associated with “the opposition” who have in recent years been held on such charges.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 16, 2021 19:41 UTC