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 M�nard 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." M�nard added, "People thought King Mohammed VI's Morocco was on the road to democracy, but they were clearly mistaken."