In the con­text of the pop­u­lar denounce­ment, of the roy­al par­don of the Span­ish crim­i­nal con­vict­ed for rap­ing 11 Moroc­can chil­dren, and after exam­i­na­tion of the mat­ter from a glob­al per­spec­tive, by the free thought forum, the lat­er declares to the peo­ple of Moroc­co and every­where else:

Its sup­port to the fam­i­lies of the vic­tims and all Moroc­cans, and joins all free voic­es that had con­demned the par­don, and con­sid­ered it an insult to the dig­ni­ty of Moroc­can citizens.

The free thought forum also calls every­one to take their moral and polit­i­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty, and denun­ci­ates the dec­la­ra­tions of the “Islamist” gov­ern­ment attempt­ing to jus­ti­fy that wrong deci­sion, using lame pre­texts deep­en the insult inflict­ed upon the feel­ings of Moroc­cans, such as “nation­al inter­est” and “diplo­mat­ic complement”.

The forum strong­ly con­demns the sav­age repres­sion of the demon­stra­tors who took it to the streets to express their refusal of the afore­men­tioned par­don, which goes against all nation­al and inter­na­tion­al treaties and laws, grant­i­ng them free­dom of expres­sion and difference.

N.B. It’s worth not­ing that the Free Thought Forum is a civ­il orga­ni­za­tion found­ed by Moroc­can aca­d­e­mics, intel­lec­tu­als, artists, writ­ers, pro­fes­sors, jour­nal­ists, human rights activists, and lawyers to oppose tute­lage and author­i­tar­i­an­ism in all forms.

Source: Kacem El Ghazzali