Morocco counter-terror law under fire from HRW (Magharebia.com): "Morocco exercises secret detention and ill-treatment of detainees under counter-terrorism laws, Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged in a provocative new report titled 'Stop looking for your son: Illegal detentions under the counterterrorism law in Morocco'.
'While Morocco has demonstrated the political will to adopt enlightened human rights legislation, it lacks the political will to enforce it when it comes to terrorism suspects,' said Leah Whitson, head of HRW's Middle East and North Africa division.
To reach this conclusion, the organisation gathered eyewitness accounts from detainees, their lawyers and families over the period 2007-2010. The 56-page report issued on Monday (October 25th) strongly condemned arrests of suspects by plain-clothes officers, who show no ID, fail to explain the basis for the arrest and take the detainees blindfolded to a secret place."
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