Protest leader Nasser Zefzafi and journalist Hamid El Mahdaoui remain in prolonged solitary confinement. Hunger-striking detainees are facing reprisals as their health continues to deteriorate. They face trial in Casablanca.
Protest leader Nasser Zefzafi and journalist Hamid El Mahdaoui remain in prolonged solitary confinement. Hunger-striking detainees are facing reprisals as their health continues to deteriorate. They face trial in Casablanca. 1) TAKE ACTION Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:- Calling on the authorities to immediately end the detention of Nasser Zefzafi and Hamid El Mahdaoui in prolonged solitary confinement;
- Urging them to ensure that no reprisals are made against hunger strikers and ensure they have access to adequate medical care in line with medical ethics;
- Calling on them to immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for exercising freedom of expression, assembly.
Contact these two officials by 15 November, 2017:
Director of General Administration for Prison Administration and Reinsertion Mohamed Saleh Tamek Angle Avenue Arar et rue El-Jouz Hay El Riyad, Rabat, Morocco Fax: + 212 5 37 71 26 19 Salutation: Dear SirÂ
Ambassador Princess Lalia Joumala, Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco 1601 21st St. NW, Washington DC 20009 Phone: 202 462 7979 I Fax: 202 462 7643 Email: [email protected] Salutation: Dear Ambassador
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