A Moroccan court has just ordered three leading Arabic newspapers to pay one million Moroccan dirham       ($124,100) each in response to criticisms they’ve made against Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi. The charges were brought by the Libyan Embassy in Rabat and also included additional fines against the journalists who wrote the articles. Rachid Niny, editor of Morocco’s most widely read (and very critical) daily—Al Massae—lashed out that “this is a lawsuit by the Moroccan government rather than by Gaddafi.” Reporters Without Borders told Al Jazeera that the size of the fines could mean closure of the publications. This is just one more step backwards in Morocco’s receding press freedom.