Par Ahmed Benani
Ali Lmrabet
À Rabat, ce vendredi 24 juillet 2015 devant le
parlement (photo1). À l'échelle internationale, la journée du 25.07 de
Genève (photo 2), connaîtra des suites, malgré la "pause estivale",
jusqu'à la satisfaction totale des revendications légitimes du citoyen
marocain Ali Lmrabet.
À l'issue de notre rassemblement, devant le palais
des Nations-Unies ce samedi, nous mettrons en place démocratiquement
une structure ad hoc destinée à préserver la vie d'Ali et de lui
permettre de regagner, la tête haute, son pays pour y exercer librement
son métier de journaliste, muni de tous ses papiers d'identité. Après 31
jours de grève de la faim, Ali Lmrabet est désormais entré dans
l'Histoire de la conquête de la vraie citoyenneté politique.
Il est
devenu un symbole pour notre jeunesse, à ce titre le devoir moral de ne
pas le laisser mourir s'impose à l'ensemble de la communauté
internationale !
Ali Lmrabet
À Rabat, ce vendredi 24 juillet 2015 devant le parlement (photo1). À l'échelle internationale, la journée du 25.07 de Genève (photo 2), connaîtra des suites, malgré la "pause estivale", jusqu'à la satisfaction totale des revendications légitimes du citoyen marocain Ali Lmrabet.
À l'issue de notre rassemblement, devant le palais des Nations-Unies ce samedi, nous mettrons en place démocratiquement une structure ad hoc destinée à préserver la vie d'Ali et de lui permettre de regagner, la tête haute, son pays pour y exercer librement son métier de journaliste, muni de tous ses papiers d'identité. Après 31 jours de grève de la faim, Ali Lmrabet est désormais entré dans l'Histoire de la conquête de la vraie citoyenneté politique.
Il est devenu un symbole pour notre jeunesse, à ce titre le devoir moral de ne pas le laisser mourir s'impose à l'ensemble de la communauté internationale !
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Ali Lmrabet |
Moroccans take part in a
demonstration to support French-Moroccan satirical journalist Ali
Lmrabet on July 24 in front of the parliament in the Moroccan capital
Rabat. (AFP/Fadel Senna)
The Committee to Protect Journalists
today joined 161 organizations, writers, journalists, human rights
defenders, lawyers, and politicians in calling on the king of Morocco to
stop the administrative harassment of Ali Lmrabet. The satirical
journalist has been on hunger strike outside the U.N.'s Geneva offices
since June 24, according to news reports.
Lmrabet is protesting
the Moroccan government's refusal to renew his passport and residency
papers, which he says is a move to prevent him from teaming up with his
old cartoonist colleagues to resume publishing a satirical magazine,
Newsweek reported.
In 2005, Lmrabet was banned from practicing
journalism for 10 years after referring in an article to the Saharawi
people in the Algerian city of Tindouf as refugees, contradicting the
Moroccan government's position that they were prisoners of the Polisario
Front--a movement fighting for the independence of the Western Sahara.
The journalism ban expired in April this year.
Lmrabet has been
harassed repeatedly for his criticism of the Moroccan government. In May
2003, he was jailed for "insulting the king" and "challenging the
territorial integrity of the state" when his two weeklies, the
now-shuttered French-language Demain and the Arabic Douman, published
articles and cartoons that lampooned the monarchy, as well as an
interview with an opponent of the king who called for self-determination
for the people of the Western Sahara. Lmrabet served nearly nine months
of his three-year sentence before being pardoned and released in
January 2004.
Read the full letter to King Mohammed VI here.
[Reporting from Washington, D.C.]
CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour has
worked to advocate for democracy and human rights in Egypt. He has a
master’s in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts
University, and a bachelor’s in education from Cairo’s Al-Azhar
University.
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