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Feminist activist arrested after publication:
The feminist activist arrested after publication Moroccan prosecution announced. Sunday August 10, having placed in police custody the feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar after the publication on the social networks of a photo showing her dressed in a t-shirt with inscriptions deemed “Offensive towards God”.
A activist known in favor of individual freedoms. women’s rights and LGBTQ+, Ibtissame Lachgar had published in late July an image of herself carrying a t-shirt where the word appeared « Allah » (« Dieu » in Arabic) followed by the sentence « is lesbian » (“Is lesbian”). The photo was accompanied by a text qualifying Islam, “Like any religious ideology”of “Fascist, phallocrat and misogynist”.
The publication had aroused strong reactions on social networks, some Internet users calling for the arrest of the Moroccan activist.
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In a Facebook publication. Ibtissame Lachgar said he had been a victim for several days of cyberbully and having received “Thousands of threats of rape, feminist activist arrested after publication death, calls for lynching and stoning”for a t-shirt “With a slogan [détourné] well -known feminist “.
In a press release. the King’s prosecutor at the Rabat court of first instance said on Sunday that he had ordered the opening of an investigation and the placement in police custody of the activist “In accordance with the law”following the broadcast of this photo containing “Offensive expressions towards God” and of“A text comprising an offense to the Islamic religion”. “Adequate legal measures will be taken in light of the results of the survey”added the prosecution. Police custody in Morocco is generally forty-eight hours. The prosecutor will then decide the prosecution against the accused.
The Moroccan Criminal Code provides for a sentence of six months to two years in prison and-or a fine of 20. 000 to 200,000 dirhams (around 2,000 to 20,000 euros) for any damage to the Islamic religion, which can go up to five years in prison if the« outrage » is committed by a public means, including “Electronics”.
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