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Moroccan tabloid director sentenced to jail for libel
Morocco, Judicial, 4/27/2000
The Casablanca first instance court sentenced Wednesday Mustapha Alaoui, director of the tabloid weekly Al-Ousboue (the week), to three months in jail.
Alaoui was sentenced to paying a fine worth $2,000 and was banned from practicing journalism for three years. Alaoui is still legally entitled to an appeal.
The newsman was tried for defamation and libel against Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister Mohamed Benaissa, to whom he was sentenced to pay compensation worth $100,000.
Benaissa introduced the complaint as an individual and not in his capacity as a government member.
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