Moroccan blogger gets 2yrs in jail for insulting king
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Mohammed Erraji, 29, was convicted after writing an article claiming King Mohammed VI's charitable habits were encouraging a culture of dependency.
There has been no official comment on the case, but rights groups claim Erraji did not have a fair trial.
A BBC reporter says criticising the king is an offence in Morocco and the royal family remains a taboo subject.
Morocco has previously caused international outrage with its treatment of internet users.
Earlier this year, Fouad Mortada was sentenced to three years in prison for creating a false profile on the internet site Facebook using the identity of the king's brother.
He received a royal pardon following protests from internet users around the world.
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armchaircritic
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This Blogger has been released!
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/good-news/moroccan-blogger-freed-2008...
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armchaircritic
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LindseyIndigo
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"You can cage the singer, but not the song," said Harry Belafonte in 1988.
I guess the only comfort people can take from this is that these kinds of anti-democratic imprisonments only serve to raise awareness of the very ideas the censors are trying to suppress.
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LindseyIndigo
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goldenways
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear; and there is damnation in the things that wicked men love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease, and bring new elements of health. And where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
- Henry Ward Beecher - 3 years ago
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goldenways
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GrandKnow2
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goldenways:
So true
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GrandKnow2
