Archive for March 19, 2010

Morocco: Ramadan ‘ protest picnickers’face prosecution

Moroccan authorities are expected to prosecute a group arrested for organizing a forest picnic to protest a law that forbids Muslims from eating publicly during Ramadan fasting hours, media reports say, but as would be picnickers arrived at the train station in Mohammedia, they were met by a large police squad that searched them and took the names and phone numbers of some of them, according to a statement issued by Human Rights Watch. There were more than 100 police officers, riot police and military personnel had “besieged” the train stations and nearby areas.

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