Morocco: Government urged to start protecting homosexuals

Human Rights Watch and the Moroccan Human Rights Association have urged the Moroccan government to protect the rights to privacy and fair trial of its citizens regardless of their sexual orientation. The two organisations also requested that the Moroccan authorities repeal a law that prescribes prison terms for consensual homosexual acts. They have also launched a petition demanding that the government repeal article 489 of the penal code that criminalises homosexuality.