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I totally agree with your comment. You know, Fouad’s reason was that he wanted to seduce girls… But I think he did not make a great choice for that. If I would be him, I would make Brad Pitt’s profile ;).

In morocco one gets pulled over for going through green lights and disobeying non-existent signs. Policemen need money and abuse their powers thousands of times a day throughout the country for cash.

Moroccan law does not allow Moroccans to change religion, they are Muslim, period. Women do not have the same rights as men, during inheritance, a boy is worth two girls and if there is no direct boy descendant, a distant male cousin can claim 50% or more of the estate.

Recently two gays were imprisoned for openly marrying.

On may 1st there were a number of arrests against people peacefully demonstrating for better access to jobs and better labor law in a country where 30% or more of the youth are unemployed.

Human rights are abused everyday there, so Mourtada is in serious shit. Good luck to him and those trying to get the clemency of fake justice.

One week after his disappearance and imprisonment by the Moroccan police force Tuesday February 05, it was finally possible for the family of Fouad to visit him this Tuesday February 12 afternoon at Oukacha jail in Casablanca, Morocco.

Fouad, distraught after one week of detention, stated the following facts:

“I was arrested on the morning of Tuesday by two individuals who embarked me on a vehicle then blindfolded my eyes with a black band. After about fifteen minutes, they changed vehicle, then took me along to some building to undergo an interrogation there. There I was persecuted, beaten up, slapped, spat on and insulted. I was also slammed for hours with a tool on the head and the legs. This calvary lasted such a long time that I lost consciousness several times and also lost the notion of time. I was completely surprised to learn, when I was taken again to another location, that it was Wednesday “.

Concerning the Facebook account, incriminated Fouad indicated:

“I actually created this account on January 15, 2008. It remained on line a few days before somebody closed it. There are so many profiles of celebrities on Facebook. I never thought that by creating a profile of his highness prince Moulay Rachid I am harming him in any way. I, as a matter of fact, did not send any message from that account to anyone. It was just a joke, a gag. I regret my gesture and beg my forgiveness from my whole family for the harm that I have caused them. I am not an evil doer; my ambition in the life was simply to have a stable job and a normal life “.

Fouad Mourtada awaits the starting of his trial, Friday February 15. He could be facing 5 years of prison, to have done what thousands of people throughout the world do everyday: create a profile of a celebrity or a star on Facebook.

We call for a general mobilization in favour of Fouad Mourtada.

Committee of support for Fouad Mourtada *

Demain va passer en jugement au Maroc un jeune homme qui a été emprisonné et torturé pour avoir osé, pendant quelques jours, prendre comme pseudo sur Facebook le nom du jeune frère du roi, le prince Moulay Rachid.
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This is not the only case, please take a look at http://tinyurl.com/2ajv7m

Techcrunch.com vient de parler du Maroc. 670 000 abonnés en fils RSS, des milliers de blogs vont reprendre l’information dans le monde. La soirée (c’est à dire la journée pour les US) va être chaude. Le Maroc n’a pas gagné…

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It has nothing to do with free speech.

I think the key point is the intention of the person who made the fake.

The sooner the world moves to IPv6 and/or Microsoft’s InfoCard, or the like, the better.

Apparently so, at least in Morocco. According to the CNN article, Fouad Mourtada, a 26 year old Moroccan man, was arrested in Casablanca for “villainous practices.” These villainous practices? Posing as Prince Moulay Rachid on Facebook.
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