Morroco: Fears for hunger strike journalist's health

Ali Lmrabet, the jailed editor of two banned satirical news magazines in Morocco, has started another hunger strike just five months after he agreed to end a fifty-day fast which left him in a seriously weakened physical condition. According to reports he was joined in his protest by fellow-inmate Mohammed el-Hourd, managing editor of the weekly Asharq. Lmrabet began the hunger strike on 30 November in protest against their mistreatment and to demand recognition of their status as prisoners of conscience.