30/09/2019
Morocco journalist gets 1-year jail for 'illegal abortion'
Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail for having had an illegal abortion and sexual relations outside marriage. Her gynaecologist was given two years and her Sudanese fiance one year in prison, while an anaesthetist was handed a one-year suspended sentence and a medical assistant eight months, also suspended. Lawyers for 28-year-old Raissouni had called for her acquittal during the trial, denying she had had an abortion. This tr ......
