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Weekly director gets one-year suspended sentence for defamation

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The appellate court of Casablanca condemned Thursday director of 'Al Michaal' weekly, Idriss Chahtane to a one-year suspended sentence for defamation against a foreign head of State.

The court also sentenced him to pay a fine of MAD 100,000 (around USD 10,900) after he published on June 27 an article that severely criticized Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

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