Morocco: Prison Sentence, Suspended For Islamist Leaders In The Issue Of Nationality

The police had arrested Omar bin Hammad, Fatima Al-Najjar Almentmyin leading to the ruling in Morocco since 2011, Islamist Justice and Development Party, on August 20, in the "sex position" in a car near the beach.





To the right of Moqovan on charges of adultery and infringement of privacy and attempted corruption, and sentenced them to Court of First Instance in Benslimane, two months suspended prison sentence and fined 500 dirhams (50 euros), as quoted by local press as their lawyer Abdul Malik Azaaazza who described the verdict as "baseless."

The law punishes relations outside marriage imprisonment from one month to a year.

The arrest of these two Albarzatan personalities within the Islamic movement and one of them was known to fight it, "immorality and seduction," raised a lot of controversy last summer.

The incident occurred a month and a half before the legislative elections and took political dimensions.

He condemned the Islamic leader bin Hammad b "political exploitation" to discredit the Justice and Development Party ahead of the elections which were won by the party later.

But tight security devices such accusations denied that the arrest of Islamist leaders red-handed in a car on the beach was the sole "coincidence."