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Moroccan authorities refute Amnesty International charges

The public authorities indicate in a press release that they received, on Friday, Mohamed Sektaoui, executive director of AI in Morocco and expressed their surprise at the allegations contained in the last report of this Organization, dated June 22, 2020, making state of contacts with the Moroccan authorities before its publication.

Denying having been contacted by Amnesty, the authorities stress that the publication of this report and the mobilization of 17 press organs around the world to relay unfounded allegations are part of an agenda targeting Morocco, part of which is related to circles vowing to hate the Kingdom, while others are part of a logic of competition between economic groups around the marketing of equipment used in intelligence, underlines the press release.

During this meeting, it was brought to the attention of the Executive Director of AI that the said report did not provide tangible evidence on the alleged link of Morocco with the infiltration of certain people’s telephones, thus proving that the authors of the report have no tangible evidence to corroborate these allegations, the same source added, adding that this is a conviction of the Moroccan public authorities since the publication of the previous Amnesty report in October 2019.

Consequently, the statement continues, the Moroccan authorities demanded that the Executive Director of Amnesty International send them, as soon as possible, the alleged tangible evidence, in order to allow Morocco to do what is necessary to protect the rights of its citizens. citizens.

Pending a detailed official response, the Moroccan authorities point out that after the suspension, for several years, of cooperation with this organization, they have not noticed any change in its approach which could distance it from the slippages that s ” register as false in relation to the rules of defense of human rights in their universal dimension, far from the calculations of lobbies and pressure centers out of phase with the protection of these rights.

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