Morocco: Le Nouvel Observateur Magazine Confiscated


ANHRI condemns the Moroccan authorities for their confiscation of the last issue of the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur due to its publishing of an image adopted from the French-Iranian film Persepolis.

The mentioned issue of the magazine was supposed to be distributed on 2 February 2012 and addressed Persepolis, an animated film about the suffering of an Iranian family following the Iranian revolution in 1979, forcing the family to travel to France. Morocco, however, had not succumbed to Iranian pressures to ban the film in May 2008 and was shown in the Meknes International Festival of Animated Film (FICAM). It was also shown in the Casablanca Film Festival (Casa Cine) in 2007.

This is not the first time Persepolis has been the center of a controversy. The head of the Tunisian satellite TV Nesma is currently being tried for airing the film dubbed into Arabic. His next hearing is expected to be held in April 2012.

“Freedom of opinion and expression is guaranteed by international conventions. The Moroccan authorities have to guarantee this right. Censorship and confiscation policies belong to the past and are no longer valid at this age, especially in the light of the Arab Spring” said ANHRI.
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