Solidarity needed with Moroccan blogger…

US-sponsored terrorists in action…

Please circulate the following statement…

[20-1-1984] A light armored vehicle patrols a street in Nador, northeastern Morocco, Friday, where mass protests and labor strikes against the rising food prices were brutally suppressed, resulting in injuries and deaths among demonstrators [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

Via Comrade Farah…

I received a statement, via Yasser el-Sirri, issued by Moroccan Islamist prisoners regarding their mistreatment in the gulag of the country’s pro-US monarch… You can download it here…

I received a message from the London-based Egyptian activist Yasser el-Sirri, regarding an ongoing crackdown on Islamist detainees in Moroccan prisons… Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to download the message…

I received the following statement from Reporters Without Borders…
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Abderrahim Ariri, the publisher of the weekly Al Watan Al An (The Nation Now), and one of his journalists, Mostapha Hurmatallah, yesterday in Casablanca after they published the text of an internal security memo circulated by the General Directorate [...]

Where are the quotation marks?! The Associated Press still insists on refering to the Arab dictatorships as “moderates”… Bravo ya AP!
The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco held their first publicly disclosed talks in years Wednesday, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the heart of the discussion.
In separate meetings, French officials pressed Israel to take the [...]

I received the following statement from HRinfo…
The Moroccan authorities must release the detained Moroccan civil society activists, who were arrested after the First of May demonstrations and who were charged with “insulting sacred doctrines.” It must stop the campaign against of violations and restrictions against freedom of opinion and expression, said the Arabic Network for [...]

I received a statement from London-based Egyptian activist Yasser el-Sirri, saying a 23-year-old Moroccan Islamist suspect died in Sala Prison Monday morning. Youcef al-Aynous, according to the statement, was rounded up in Meknes a month and half ago, was undergoing interrogation, part of a security crackdown on alleged volunteers who want to travel to fight [...]