Moroccan editor gets 11-month prison sentence in 2nd defamation case
Morocco, Politics, 6/23/2004

The first instance court of Rabat on Tuesday sentenced editor of Moroccan tabloid "Akhbar Al Ousboua," Anas Tadili, to a combined 11 months in jail in two defamation cases brought to justice by Najib Zerouali, a former minister and the Rabat gendarmerie.

The man, currently serving a ten-month sentence for breaching the Moroccan exchange law, was handed down a 6-month jail sentence and a fine of 10,000 dirhams (around US$ 1,000) for publishing in April an article alleging that the former minister of public sector modernization, had been illegally awarded 100 ha of state-owned farming land.

In the case filed against him, by the Rabat gendarmerie, Tadili received a five-month prison sentence and a fine of 5,000 DH (around US$ 500) for writing that the gendarmerie is swindling people by setting speed-radars all along the Rabat-Meknes road.

The editor had also been sentenced early this month to a six-month prison sentence for publishing an article on the alleged homosexuality of a Government member, under the title "homosexuality and the political class."

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