Update On Moroccan Situation Centered On Caricature of Royal Family Member

I totally missed the fact that after the closure of the newspaper Akhbar al Youm for its caricature of Moroccan royal Prince Moulay Ismail that not only was the editor willing to apologize and not only (according to what I can find) has the newspaper remain closed, and not only has the government rejected any kind of free speech formulation in the matter, but that the editor Taoufik Bouachrine and the cartoonist Khalid Gueddar have been on trial for the last couple of weeks, a trial that continues today. They represent the third lawsuit against journalists in recent weeks in what has to be called a dismaying period of hostility against the press in that country. Even as the trial continues, today's wire reports indicate that issues of La Monde commenting on the story that include the offending cartoon and an additional cartoon on the matter have been blocked from distribution in Morocco as well.
 
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