Morocco: Review of restrictive media laws hailed

"The World Press Freedom Committee last wrote on February 2, 2004 to express its warm appreciation of Your Majesty's compassion in pardoning journalist Ali Lmrabet, the director of the French-language Demain and its Arabic sister publication, Douman, after he had been sentenced to four years' imprisonment by a Moroccan court for news reports he had published. The WPFC now writes again to express its pleasure at reports that Your Majesty has instituted a far-ranging review of restrictive laws contained in Morocco's Penal Code to ensure that journalists not be jailed for what they write or publish."