The former Bâtonnier of Rabat and Minister of Human Rights between 1995 and 1996 was sentenced on appeal to three years in prison.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
The Moroccan opponent Mohammed Ziane, former Bâtonnier of Rabat and Minister of Human Rights between 1995 and 1996, was arrested and imprisoned, Monday, November 21 in the evening, after being sentenced to three years of prison, we learned from a judicial source and from his son.
“He was transferred to [near Rabat]. He was not even legally notified [of his conviction] and he never appeared,” said the agency-France-Press , Ali Reda Ziane, a lawyer by M. Ziane. “He was condemned [by the Court of Appeal of Rabat] for all possible and imaginable charges, it is an aberration that I have never seen,” protested the son of the opponent.
Eleven charges
In a statement, the prosecution said that “the services of the competent judicial police, and on instruction from the public prosecutor, arrested the interested party and imprisoned him in execution of the provisions of the appeal decision”.
m. Ziane, 79 years old, was prosecuted under a complaint from the Moroccan Interior Ministry, for eleven counts, including those of “public officials and justice”, “insult a Constituted body “,” defamation “,” adultery “or” sexual harassment “.
He had been sentenced on February 23 to three years in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams (470 euros) but he had been released.
Founder of the Liberal Moroccan Party (PML), this great state clerk became known by critical declarations against power, in particular Moroccan intelligence services.
Close to the circles of power, he was also the government’s lawyer in the 1990s. In recent years, he has become famous for his outspokenness to the Moroccan security apparatus.