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President Gaddafi to work full time on persecuting Arab Journalists!
Three Libyan Lawsuits against Moroccan newspapers
Cairo, 22 April, 2009
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information has described today the complaints made by the Libyan Embassy in Rabat against three Moroccan newspapers, namely; "Al-Masaa", "Al-Garida Al-Oula" and "Moroccan Events", as a threat to freedom of expression and press in Morocco, which must be confronted.
Few days ago, the Libyan Embassy in Rabat has submitted a complaint to the King's Deputy (Public Prosecutor) against the three newspapers accusing them of insulting and belittling the dignity of the Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, on the grounds of publishing some articles criticizing Gaddafi or referring to him in a way which the Libyan Embassy claims is unacceptable.
The first complaint regarding the journalist "Younis Meskeen" and the content of his article, in the context of a commentary by the Moroccan Communications Minister who likened the childish attitudes of Gaddafi to that of his Venezuelan Counterpart.
As for the journalist "Ali Anzola", he was questioned because of one of his articles in "al-Garida Al-Oula" in which he described the way the Libyan President has come to power as "a coup".
The third was "al-Mukhtar Leghzaiwi", journalist of "Moroccan events" newspaper.
It is to be noted that the Libyan President has recently been used to prosecute Arabic journalists through his Embassies abroad, since he prosecuted "Al-Shorouq" Algerian newspaper, as well as "Sawt el-Omma" and "Al-Doustour" newspapers in Egypt, and "Al-Watan" Saudi newspaper.
"It seems that President Gaddafi, after he overthrew press freedom in Libya, has started to focus his attention and experience towards prosecuting Arab Journalists outside his country, thus, we all have to stand by these journalists, in order to preserve what is left of press freedom in the Arab world. " said The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.
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