Editor Lmrabet Banned From Journalism

Deep in what reads like a general profile of satirist and journalist Ali Lmrabet appears the news that the Moroccan government has recently fined him $6000 and banned him from journalism for 10 years, this time due to comments Lmrabet made in a magazine interview about West Saharan refugees.

Lmrabet had just received permission last month to launch a new magazine.

Lmrabet became a well-known figure in Morocco in 2001 when his magazines Demain (French language) and Doumain (Arabic) became critical of Morocco's royal family and other government officials. In May of 2003 Lmrabet was sentenced to four years in prison and a hefty fine for publishing a critical photo montage and a cartoon by the artist "Khalid." At that time he became a rallying cause within the international journalism community. Lmrabet was pardoned and released in January 2004, but obstacles in re-starting his career have kept him an important, ongoing test case for freedom of the press in the Arab world.
 
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