Moroccan Gets Three-Year Jail Term For Criticising King
A Moroccan Appeal court on Monday sentenced a man to three years in prison for insulting King Mohammed VI in social media posts, criticising normalisation with Israel, the defence attorney said. Said Boukioud, 48, was initially sentenced in August to five years for Facebook posts in late 2020. The court in Casablanca reduced the sentence to three years, lawyer El Hassan Essouni told AFP. He said he planned to appeal to the North African country's top court, calling the ruling "very excessive". Essouni said his client "never had" the intention to offend the king but "wanted to draw attention to the fact that normalisation was not good for Moroccans, nor for the Palestinian cause, nor for anyone." Morocco and Israel normalised diplomatic relations in December 2020 as part of…
