(ANSAmed) - RABAT, MAY 18 - Human Right Watch (HRW) has
denounced the reality in the country is very different from the
new Moroccan Constitution. According to the organisation, the
violence used by police officers remains unpunished and freedom
of expression is not tolerated in the country.
HRW has said that it is disappointed in ''the fact that the
Moroccan authorities have not carried out a correct
investigation into the beating of a HRW activist by police
officers'', showing ''the impunity of police violence.''
According to Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the NGO's Middle
East and North Africa division, ''Morocco has to open an
impartial, interactive and rapid inquiry to look into reports of
violence used by the police.''
Another fact that has drawn the attention of HRW is the
recent conviction of Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghouat
''Al-Haqed'' (''the suspect'') to one year in prison for
''insulting the police.''
''This sentence,'' the organisation denounces, ''shows the
gap between the 2011 Moroccan Constitution, which strongly
supports freedom of expression, and the continuing intolerance
towards people who criticise state institutions.'' (ANSAmed).
