{"id":256984,"date":"2023-04-10T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/morocco-journalist-faces-three-years-in-jail-for-facebook-post?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-04-10T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:33:37","slug":"morocco-journalist-faces-three-years-in-jail-for-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/morocco-journalist-faces-three-years-in-jail-for-facebook-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco: Journalist faces three years in jail for Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0ad63f5de5163c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0ad63f5de5163c5\" alt=\"Amnesty International\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/0ad63f5de5163c5\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=249713&amp;press_source=Amnesty International\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the opening today of the trial of journalist Hanane Bakour who faces up to three years in prison and a fine after being accused of&nbsp;&ldquo;publishing fake news by using electronic means that harm private life&rdquo; for a Facebook post where she criticized the holding of a local election by the ruling party, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International&rsquo;s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa said:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is shocking, heavy-handed and absurd that a journalist faces criminal charges over a Facebook post that was critical of Morocco&rsquo;s main political party. Hanane Bakour has a right to her opinions, even if politicians object to them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Morocco is increasingly showing its intolerance of criticism of the political system. These trumped-up charges against Hanane should be dismissed immediately and the case against her dropped.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Amnesty International.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Responding to the opening today of the trial of journalist Hanane Bakour who faces up to three years in prison and a fine after being accused of&nbsp;&ldquo;publishing fake news by using electronic means that harm private life&rdquo; for a Facebook post where she criticized the holding of a local election by the ruling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-256984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-apo","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}