{"id":1212,"date":"2014-07-05T15:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2014-07-05T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T15:50:41","slug":"journalist-jailed-by-a-moroccan-court-for-reporting-on-demonstrations-in-western-sahara-must-be-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"JOURNALIST JAILED BY A MOROCCAN COURT FOR REPORTING ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN WESTERN SAHARA MUST BE FREED."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mahmoud-lhaisane-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1214\" src=\"http:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mahmoud-lhaisane-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Mahmoud Lhaisan\" width=\"238\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mahmoud-lhaisane-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mahmoud-lhaisane-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adalauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mahmoud-lhaisane-1-500x357.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>Mahmoud Lhaisan<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Three days before he was detained,\u00a0<b>Mohmod Lhaisan<\/b>\u00a0delivered a live report on RASDTV (Saharawi television) which showed the excessive violence used by the Moroccan authorities against peaceable Saharawi demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Two days before he was detained, Mohmod put a message on Facebook stating that the Moroccan authorities had attacked demonstrators who were protesting peaceably in the Saharawi capital, El Ai\u00fan, causing damage to seven Saharawi homes and several shops. The journalist, who had in a previous Facebook post questioned the authorities\u2019 version of events put out via the media, confirmed that inhabitants of the area had been detained, including many who were injured.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">The charges against Momod Lhaisan should be dropped and he should be released immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\u00a0<b>AdalaUK<\/b>\u00a0believes that:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">The detention of a journalist for merely doing his job goes against Morocco\u2019s international obligations and undermines the Saharawi people\u2019s rights to receive information via the media;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Journalists must be able to complete their professional activity free from fear of threat from the authorities and free from suffering arbitrary restrictions on their actions;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">The Moroccan authorities and armed forces should be judged on their actions, not just their words.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><b>\u00a0<\/b>According to family members, Mahmod Lhaisan is accused of \u2018inciting violence\u2019 by broadcasting false information and threatening \u2018national security\u2019 and \u2018weakening the confidence in the state\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Please take a moment to email the\u00a0<\/b><b>Moroccan Minister of Justice:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\">Mostafa Rmaidi<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\"><a href=\"mailto:cabinet@justice.gov.ma\" target=\"_blank\">cabinet@justice.gov.ma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days before he was detained,\u00a0Mohmod Lhaisan\u00a0delivered a live report on RASDTV (Saharawi television) which showed the excessive violence used by the Moroccan authorities against peaceable Saharawi demonstrators. Two days before he was detained, Mohmod put a message on Facebook stating that the Moroccan authorities had attacked demonstrators who were protesting peaceably in the Saharawi capital, El Ai\u00fan, causing damage to seven Saharawi homes and several shops. The journalist, who had in a previous Facebook post questioned the authorities\u2019 version of events put out via the media, confirmed that inhabitants of the area had been detained, including many who were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adalauk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}