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RIGHTS-MOROCCO: Abolition Activists Failing to Stir Campuses

RIGHTS-MOROCCO: CASABLANCA, Dec 13 (IPS) - Anti-death penalty activists have yet to carry through their plan for a new boost of campaigning in Moroccan universities, facing a combination of outright hostility and political apathy from some ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI, Inter Press Service,  13 Dec 2008

DEATH PENALTY: Arab Cyber Project to have New Year Launch

DEATH PENALTY: CASABLANCA, Dec 12 (IPS) - The Rights and People project -- an Arabic-language anti-death penalty venture -- will start work in early 2009 with the launch of an online magazine, the first of its kind run by human rights ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI, Inter Press Service,  12 Dec 2008

Q&A: 'We Have to Develop Our Modern Sharia'

Q&A: Abderrahim El Ouali interviews MOSTAFA HANNAOUI, founder of the Rights and People project CASABLANCA, Dec 4 (IPS) - A unique human rights project has been recently set up to empower more than 300 million people in the Arab world to ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI INTERVIEWS MOSTAFA HANNAOUI, FOUNDER, Inter Press Service,  4 Dec 2008

Q&A: 'The Abolitionist Cause Should Be Separate from Politics'

Q&A: Abderrahim El Ouali interviews AMMAR QURABI of the Syrian National Human Rights Organisation CASABLANCA, Dec 2 (IPS) - The abolitionist movement in Syria faces more difficulties from religious institutions and scholars than from the ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI INTERVIEWS AMMAR QURABI, Inter Press Service,  2 Dec 2008

Q&A: 'Divinely Ordained Law Makes Abolition More Difficult'

Q&A: Abderrahim El Ouali interviews MARYAM NAMAZIE of Equal Rights Now CASABLANCA, Dec 2 (IPS) - Political Islam is the main barrier to abolishing the death penalty in most countries where it is still practised, says Maryam Namazie. Weaken ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI INTERVIEWS MARYAM NAMAZIE OF EQUAL RIGHTS NOW, Inter Press Service,  2 Dec 2008

Q&A: 'Religious Institutions and Islamists Oppose Abolition'

Q&A: Abderrahim El Ouali interviews BRAHIM AHENSAL of the Moroccan Human Rights Association CASABLANCA, Dec 1 (IPS) - King Mohamed VI of Morocco could easily abolish the death penalty by royal decree. But by keeping capital punishment on ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI INTERVIEWS BRAHIM AHENSAL, Inter Press Service,  1 Dec 2008

RIGHTS-MOROCCO: Firing Squads Silent - But Death Hovers

RIGHTS-MOROCCO: CASABLANCA, Morocco, Aug 19 (IPS) - Morocco's death row prisoners -- some 150 inmates -- are living in sub-human, "life-threatening conditions", according to leading NGOs and rights activists. "The general situation of ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI, Inter Press Service,  19 Aug 2008

MOROCCO: Local Government Holds Up Development

MOROCCO: CASABLANCA, Jun 13 (IPS) - Lack of political will on the part of some municipalities is hindering an ambitious national plan for human development, activists say. On May 20, 2005, King Mohamed VI launched the National Initiative ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI, Inter Press Service,  13 Jun 2008

DEATH PENALTY-MOROCCO: Findings Provoke Calls for Guarantees

DEATH PENALTY-MOROCCO: CASABLANCA, Morocco, Jun 2 (IPS) - Two recently discovered mass graves and a still-secret list of five other places where victims of other alleged extra-judicial killings lie, has shocked rights activists here and ...

From ABDERRAHIM EL OUALI, Inter Press Service,  2 Jun 2008

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