King Mohammed sets up foundation for reintegration of minor inmates
Morocco, Culture, 1/16/2002

Morocco's King Mohammed VI chaired on Tuesday the first meeting of the managing board of the foundation for the reintegration of minor detainees and inmates which the king decided to set up following a visit last December to the Oukacha prison in Casablanca.

The king made the decision after the visit he had paid last December to the Oukacha prison in Casablanca and after he got informed about the detention conditions of inmates and especially the youth.

The king who chaired the first meeting of the foundation at the Marchane Palace in Tangiers Tuesday said that the creation of this foundation, to be placed under his effective chairmanship and to be named after him, translates his will to guarantee full rights to his faithful subjects, including inmates.

King Mohammed VI said the foundation is meant to consolidate the rehabilitation and pedagogical role of detention centers to make of them a social and humane space for the reintegration of inmates. The Mohammed VI foundation will mobilize means to provide pedagogical and vocational training to inmates in a bid to help in their social and family reintegration once they are released, the king said.

He added that the making of the managing board that includes representatives of human rights organizations, which are most active in this field, and of private sector operators translates his will to associate the civil society in the advanced reforms that he was keen on introducing in the law regulating the organization and functioning of prisons and in the draft penal procedure code, mainly through the setting up of institutions of judges enforcing courts rulings and a minors' justice as well as the setting up of rehabilitation centers entrusted with protecting and rehabilitating young delinquents to ease their social reintegration.

King Mohammed VI who hailed the voluntary spirit and commitment evidenced by the foundation's managing board members urged them to get first-hand information on the conditions of inmates in prisons and in rehabilitation centers of young delinquents and to submit him, the soonest possible, a draft plan of action to progressively provide these centers with the required equipment. The draft plan of action will be studied at the coming meeting of foundation managing board.

The managing board of the Mohammed VI foundation for the reintegration of detainees and inmates of childhood protection centers is made up of Zoulikha Nasri, Omar Azziman, Aziz Akhennouch, Abdelaziz Alami, Mustapha Amhal, Noufissa Benchemssi, Ali Belhaj, Hassan Benmoussa, Mohamed Lididi, Najat M'jid, Assia El Ouadie and Abdellah El Oualladi.

Director of the royal office, Mohamed Rochdi Chraibi, attended the meeting.

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