@ChefGov_ma@morocco_usa Maati Monjib, is a human rights defender who was arrested December 29, 2020. Security agents in civilian clothes took him by force—and without prior notification— from a restaurant in the capital Rabat to the court of First Instance,
THREAD 1/
where he was brought before the prosecutor. The latter referred him to the investigating judge, who, after interrogating him without a lawyer, ordered his pretrial detention.
On October 7, 2020, the prosecutor’s office at the Rabat Court of First Instance, opened an investigation against Maati Monjib for alleged embezzlement & money laundering apparently stemming from the receipt of foreign funds to conduct training workshops for citizen journalists.
@rbalsaud Nassima al-Sada was arrested in July 2018 for her peaceful human rights work. I fear that She has been tortured in jail. She was put in solitary confinement for a year. Even now, her only contact with the outside world is a single weekly phone call. She is denied
visits with her family and lawyer. Why doesn't Saudi Arabia present Nassima al-Saud as an example of a 21st century Saudi woman? She is someone to be admired, not persecuted! She has spent her life working to improve women's lives, and seeking the freedom for them to
take an active part in Saudi society. News reports, here in the United States, for the last few years, gave the impression that Saudi Arabia was granting women more of their rights. The example always given was the right to drive. Imagine readers shock, to learn that the women