Morocco: Human Rights Watch calls for release of homosexuals

Human Rights Watch has called for the release of six men sentenced to prison for homosexual conduct in Morocco, arguing that the convictions violate the men’s rights to privacy. The Court of First Instance in Ksar el Kbir (north of the country) convicted the men for violating article 489 of Morocco’s penal code, which criminalises ‘lewd or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex.’