Not only will Ibtissame Lachgar be prosecuted by Moroccan justice for “attack on Islamic religion”, but it will wait for its trial behind bars. Office before the prosecutor of the Court of First Instance of Rabat, Tuesday August 12, the 50 -year -old feminist activist, guarded in custody for 48 hours, was placed in pre -trial detention in the prison near Arjate, where she spent her first night in the cell. The prosecution had requested its arrest on Sunday, after the publication on social network X on July 31, of an image of it covers a t-shirt bearing the inscription « Allah is lesbian » (“Allah is lesbian”).
Received as “A shock” Through the activist’s family, the public prosecutor’s decision opens up a new sequence in a very commented case in Morocco and abroad: they could be worth to Ibtissame Lachgar up to five years in prison, according to the reading that the judge of article 267-5 of the Criminal Code will make, which punishes anyone offense Islam.
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