Human Rights Report on Morocco

The highlights of the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Morocco are not overly surprising:



  1. Morocco has maintained a de facto moratorium on the death penalty since 1994;

  2. Morocco has made torture a criminal offense (Bush Administration take note);

  3. The Equity and Reconciliation Commission has unfinished business;

  4. Moroccan prisons are overcrowded and unsanitary; and

  5. The press law needs reform.


Notably, France indicated that is it willing to provide some material assistance. It is also worth a good laugh to read the comments of such beacons of human rights as Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, even in light of the dismal recent record of the United States.