At a recent meeting with print company executives the minster warned them to be “vigilant”. A member of the printers' management was questioned by police in connection with legal proceedings against the paper's editor.
The Moroccan authorities in August 2007 cordoned off the premises of the printers Ideale for several days and destroyed copies of the weekly Tel Quel, on the orders of the interior minister Chakib Benmoussa. “They are now becoming censors by proxy and are over-doing it to avoid any further confrontation with the authorities.” Art et Culture Publié le lundi 25 juillet 2011 Allo Police. It is currently benefiting from effects of pressure it has put on printers for several months,” the worldwide press freedom organisation said. Accueil News Photos Art et Culture Presse nationale : lhebdomadaire Allo Police de retour dans les kiosques. Québec, Presses de lUniversité Laval, tome 8, p. La presse québécoise des origines à nos jours. Référence BEAULIEU, André et Jean HAMELIN. “The Moroccan state did not have to intervene in this censorship decision. Allo Police Date Le 28 février 1953 Description Premier numéro de ce journal hebdomadaire consacré à l’actualité criminelle fondé par Robert Poulin. Managing editor, Ali Amar, changed photos illustrating a feature on a work by two Moroccan artists - inspired by French artist Gustave Courbet's painting “Origin of the world” - which had been withdrawn from an exhibition in Mexico at the request of the Iranian ambassador, who found it “prejudicial to the Muslim religion”.Īmar told Reporters Without Borders that the printer had been convinced that the Moroccan authorities would not allow the edition in question, on 30 November, to go on sale. The lawyer for the centre produced in evidence previous front pages of the newspaper that dealt with sensitive issues, arguing that it was damaging Morocco's image abroad.Reporters Without Borders today said it was concerned that the printers of the Journal Hebdomadaire had forced its management to change its front page photo and others inside for fear the edition would be seized if it was printed as it was. The plaintiff's lawyer said that it was in reality a political trial and the court was as a result invited to judge the newspaper's editorial line and opinions and not the object of the complaint. Lawyers for the two journalists said they would appeal.Įditor of Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Ali Amar, said that “at no time had the speeches focused on the alleged object of the libel. Jamai and Iraqi, already fined 50,000 dirhams (5,000 euros) in the criminal court were handed down the latest fines on 16 February by a civil court in Rabat which also ordered them to publish the grounds for the decision in three weeklies, Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Maroc Hebdo and El Ousboue. In the same way anything connected with the Palace or the Western Sahara is taboo.” "In exploiting a foreign-based fake NGO, the government is reminding journalists of the red lines they should not cross. After sentencing Ali Lmrabet to a ten-year ban on practising his profession and imposing fines totally 177,000 euros for libel on the weekly Tel Quel over a period of less than three months, it is the turn of Le Journal to pay the price for this policy of stifling the investigative press”. “The Moroccan authorities never give up and gagging newspapers and their journalists is their latest weapon", said Reporters Without Borders. The complaint that led to the sentence against the newspaper was laid by the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre (ESISC), after Le Journal Hebdomadaire published a report questioning the objectivity of a critical report carried out by this “institute” into the separatist Polisario. "With this disproportionate sentence - equal to 138 years of a minimum salary in Morocco - the courts are determined to silence one of the best independent publications in the Maghreb, where the press is too often under the control of the government,” said Reporters Without Borders. Reporters Without Borders voiced shock as managing editor Abubakr Jamai and sub-editor Fahd Iraqi, of Le Journal Hebdomadaire were fined three million and 50,000 dirhams (350,000 euros) for defamation, the highest ever slapped on journalists in Morocco.
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