New draft law for public media submitted shortly to government
Morocco, Politics, 12/14/2001

Culture and information minister, Mohamed Achaari, said Thursday a draft law for the audio-visual media will be submitted shortly to the government before being examined by the parliament.

The minister told the national radio amendments brought to the draft seek to improve the profession conditions and consolidate the press freedom.

He also noted that for the first time the draft law stipulates in its text, and not in the preamble, that the right to information, and consequently the journalists' right to access information, is a fundamental human right, in addition to the publication's right to publish news it has.

He further explained that the new draft rests the prerogative of suspending or banning a publication in the competence of justice and not of the government. However, the project maintains the recourse to administrative seizure to protect society against any blunder that might harm its interests.

Meanwhile, the administrative seizure power that remains within the responsibility of the interior minister has been surrounded with all needed guarantees, mainly the need to substantiate the decision and the right to recourse to justice which is compelled to hand out a ruling in 24 hours, said the minister.

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