Human Rights Watch decrypts in a report published Thursday, July 28, “a repression ecosystem”.
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The Modus Operandi is well established and systematic. The Moroccan power “crushes any opposition” through the methodical application of a “real manual” of “indirect and devious techniques” while trying to preserve its image from “moderate and respectful country”, details the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization in a report published Thursday July 28. The investigation, based on interviews with nearly 90 people and the analysis of 12 trials involving eight journalists or intellectuals, is the first major search on the methodology used by the Rabat regime in the last ten years to “muzzle the Critical voices “and” scare all potential detractors of the State “.
Behind the apparently scattered files of journalists Omar Radi, Hicham Mansouri, Soulaïman Raissouni, Hajar Raissouni and Taoufik Bouachrine, human rights activists Maati Monjib and Fouad Abdelmoumni or the lawyer Mohamed Ziane, the same processes of Police surveillance, media intimidation and judicial harassment are at work, deciphers the report entitled “” in one way or another, they will have “: manual of repression techniques in Morocco”. This “series of techniques (…) used in combination forms a repression ecosystem”, sums up the report of HRW.
If the premises of opponents has a very old story in Morocco, it has put on an unprecedented form from the mid -2010s, notes the report, with the imputation to these dissident voices of “crimes other than D ‘Expression “: adultery, rape and sexual assault, espionage, money laundering and even deals with human beings. The underlying idea is to avoid as much openly political trials as much as possible – likely to heroize people pursued – by lowering them to the vile of crook, depraved or rapist. Sexual assault files are particularly intended to take refuge behind the international wave of “metoo” to better make the defendants better.
As for adultery or gender affairs, the objective is to defile honor in a very conservative Moroccan society. “In Morocco, it is said that reputation is glass, declared in April 2021 to the world the historian Maati Monjib, prosecuted for” attack on state security “and” swindle “. When it breaks, It does not get stuck. People are more afraid of defamation than prison. “
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