Morocco: Press under Pressure
Isabelle Mandraud, Le Monde (in French) | June 25, 2010
A government campaign against journalists in Morocco provides ominous signs of rising autocratic sentiment among the country’s elite. ++ Journalists fear that the government is "attracted by the Tunesian model" of curtailing press freedom. ++ Journalists face prosecution based on trumped-up charges. ++ A human rights association allegedly sympathetic to the separatist cause of the Western Sahara is also under fire. ++ For a country “so attached to defending its image and its reforms,” these repressive measures should give pause.
