Tag: Chekib El-Khiari

Moroccan prisoner of conscience Chekib El-Khiari released from prison

Apr 17, 2011

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by

joanne

in AI press release, Group 48, Morocco

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: MDE 29/002/2011 Date: 15 April 2011 Morocco royal pardon an encouraging step Amnesty International has welcomed yesterday’s pardon of prisoner of conscience Chekib El-Khiari, jailed in June 2009 for speaking out against corruption. The organization has further welcomed yesterday’s bailing of three Sahrawi human rights activists, who had been…