Morocco: More Analysis on the Disruption of Free Speech

POMED’s Morocco page editor James Liddell has updated our Morocco country page with his latest analysis of the Le Journal closure and the arrest of a blogger who was organizing a blogger’s strike. Liddell believes we’re witnessing the daily “shrinking” of freedom of speech in Morocco.  ”The fact that Moroccan officials do not recognize that safeguarding gains made in the most basic human rights — freedom of expression and organization — is in their national interest is testament to the growing insecurity and knee-jerk repressive comportment of the makhzen,” he writes. “A new and invigorated image management campaign should be predicated on a commitment to human rights, not constructing Potemkin villages.”