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– Moroccan website director held in solitary confinement pending trial (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News June 21, 2017

Moroccan security forces arrested Mohamed al-Asrihi, a video journalist and the director of the opposition news website Rif24; he had Al-Asrihi produced video coverage of protests in the Rif area of northern Morocco, and of its imprisoned leader.
Source: MEDIA FEED

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