Maâti Monjib’s support committee wants to mobilize national and international opinion on the case of the Moroccan historian, two days after the decision of the Rabat Court of Appeal to postpone again the examination of his case to December 2 next.
Maâti Monjib was sentenced at first instance to one year in prison for “undermining the internal security of the State”. His appeal trial has again been postponed until December 2.
A “serious denial of the law”, denounces the economist and human rights activist Fouad Abdelmoumni, a member of the historian’s support committee. “We are mobilizing because we consider that we are in the presence of a case of denial. serious law and an emblematic case of the repression of opinion and expression, in Morocco,” he said, joined by Claire Fages of the Africa editorial team.
A ” judicial aberration “
The human rights defender is notably accused of embezzlement in the management of a center he had created to promote, in particular, investigative journalism. “Maâti Monjib is accused, along with six other people, of attacking the internal security of the State, because they had officially and publicly trained journalists in the use of certain software available free on the Internet. And he was sentenced, while he was in detention and he was tried in absentia, while it is a judicial aberration, ” adds the economist.
The case of Maâti Monjib mobilizes many NGOs in Morocco and beyond the borders of the Shereefian kingdom. “We are on a slope where the police state is expressed in a ferocious and illegitimate manner. And therefore we consider that it is imperative to mobilize national and international public opinion, to show that this kind of behavior cannot be free,” concludes Mr. Abdelmoumni.
