Editor Remains Imprisoned

allAfrica.com -- Morocco: Newspaper Editor Remains Imprisoned Following Appeals Court Decision

"One would have hoped the Moroccan justice system would ease the situation and show clemency by ordering Lmrabet's provisional release," RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard said. "Instead, its inflexibility seems to be confirming the fears of those who say that Lmrabet's imprisonment has sounded the death knell for the independent press." Ménard added, "People thought King Mohammed VI's Morocco was on the road to democracy, but they were clearly mistaken."