جريدة انجليزية تغطي مسيرة البيضاء8-10-2017
Demonstrators hold banners in Arabic reading “freedom” and “Death over humiliation” during a protest in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017. Hundreds of people from around Morocco protested Sunday in the nation’s economic capital, Casablanca, to demand freedom for jailed activists. (Mosa’ab Elshamy/Associated Press)
CASABLANCA, Morocco — Hundreds of people from around Morocco protested on Sunday in the nation’s economic capital, Casablanca, to demand freedom for activists jailed for their roles in a protest movement that took off a year ago in a neglected northern city.
The demonstration was the latest of numerous protests demanding the liberation of activists from the city of Al Hoceima, in the northern Rif region where hundreds of protesters have been arrested.
Leading figures in the opposition movement known as Hirak will go on trial Oct. 17 in Casablanca. No trial date has been set for the movement’s leader, Nasser Zefzafi — arrested in June after a dramatic manhunt. He could face up to 20 years in prison after a more serious drop was reduced, his lawyer Mohamed Ziane said.
Up to 1,000 protesters, led by organizers perched on a pickup truck with megaphones, gathered at a main Casablanca intersection Sunday, chanting “freedom, dignity, social justice.”
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