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.
Later reporting documents diplomatic relations between Nicaragua and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), rather than a continuing suspension of…