Having survived a dictatorship, exile, and constant threats to her life, the French-Moroccan journalist is not interested in anything less than liberty.
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Ali Anouzla’s critical reporting has uncovered a scandal in Morocco’s monarchy and, more than once, resulted in his arrest. His independent website, Lakome2, is banned in the country. Despite immense obstacles, he perseveres in covering the stories that would otherwise go untold.
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Jalal Hajir illustrates the hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia criticizing the attack on Charlie Hebdo while sentencing a dissident blogger to jail time and public floggings.
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This year, we spoke to poets, journalists, filmmakers and novelists from India to Morocco, from France to Iran. We talked about revolution, the forgotten history of the United Farm Worker Movement in Texas, hereditary exile, writing as an act of defiance, and much more.
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If the Moroccan authorities meant to silence the dissident Moroccan rapper El Haqed by locking him up in a prison cell on trumped up charges, it didn’t work.
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In this cartoon, Moroccan artist Tarek Benbaba depicts the effect fear can have on free speech.
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“The arrest of [Ali] Anouzla is the latest chapter in a series of harassment cases against uncompromising journalists. Such instances reinforce the impression that media freedom is under attack in the country.” – Hassan Masiky, former advisor to Amnesty International USA.
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