Moroccan court starts hearing of journalist arrested in connection with Casablanca attacks probe
Morocco, Politics, 6/21/2003

The court of appeal of Rabat started on Friday the hearing of Mustapha Alaoui, a journalist sued for publishing a communiqu? whereby a group, "Assaika," claims responsibility for last May 16 attacks in Casablanca.

Mustapha Alaoui was accompanied during the two-hour hearing by his attorneys.

The journalist, who edits and manages the independent Al-Ousbou weekly in Arabic, had been interrogated by the judicial police, before being put in custody in a Sal? jail, near Rabat.

The public prosecutor of the Casablanca court of appeal had said in a release that the publication by the Al-Ousbou of the statement, which other publications abstained from circulating, was a violation of the law, especially the anti-terrorism law, enacted on May 29.

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