Morocco Sentences 18 People over Gen Z Protests
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Morocco sentences 18 people over Gen Z protests
Morocco handed prison terms to more than a dozen people arrested during youth-led protests last year, after convicting them of obstructing traffic, their lawyers said on Friday. The Gen Z movement, which took the usually stable kingdom by surprise in late September 2025, demanded sweeping reforms in public health care and education. A court in Casablanca sentenced 18 people in total, with 13 receiving eight-month prison terms. They were due to b…
The Casablanca Court of Appeal has convicted 18 other people for their involvement in violent acts related to the protests of the so-called Generation Z (GENZ212), a youth movement that led mobilizations in Morocco last September. EFE has reported that the sentences handed down by the court range from eight months of actual imprisonment to one year of suspended imprisonment. The resolution refers to the events of 28 September, when several parti…
After two months of hearing, the Court of Appeal decided the fate of the 18 major defendants prosecuted after the events of September 2025 on the urban highway. Two detainees remain incarcerated, three others are suspended, while the defence still contests the merits of the case and does not exclude the appeal. The post Gen Z Trial in Casablanca: 13 defendants leave the prison appeared first on Media24 - Number one of Moroccan economic informati…
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