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CNDH’s Amina Bouayach: Royal Pardon for 23 Death Row Inmates Marks Progress

Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) President Amina Bouayach has commented on the recent royal pardon that converted death sentences for 23 inmates to fixed terms, part of King Mohammed VI’s broader clemency initiative for Throne Day.

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Mohamed VI has exercised with full hands from Tetouan (where he spends his holidays in the north of the country) the privilege of real forgiveness on Tuesday night before a message to the nation in which he has also warned about the growing inequality between the territories of the Maghreb nation and the economic gap between the thriving urban coastal regions and the backward rural interior. On the eve of the Feast of the Throne, which commemora…

·Spain
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King Mohammed VI, accompanied by Prince Heir Moulay El Hassan and Prince Moulay Rachid, presided on Wednesday afternoon at the Place de la Prefecture de M的diq-Fnideq (City of M的diq), a reception on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the Sovereign's accession to the Throne of His glorious Ancestors. At the beginning of this ceremony, His Majesty [...]

·Rabat, Morocco
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On Tuesday, King Mohamed VI of Morocco granted a royal pardon, in whole or in part, to 19,673 convicted persons, including 23 sentenced to death, whose

·Madrid, Spain
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Morocco has reopened the door of its prisons.On the occasion of the Feast of the Throne, held on 30 July, King Mohamed VI has granted a pardon to 19,673 people. This figure includes 2,415 prisoners under the ordinary procedure and 17,258 released on an exceptional basis.The gesture, described by the regime itself as a “humanist initiative”, is presented as a sign of real clemency. However, the lack of transparency on the criminal profiles of the…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
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