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Monday, 14 December 2015

Has lifted the travel ban as an academic hunger strike



The government imposed a travel ban on him and ended his three-week hunger strike in Moroccan academic Amati Mondi stopped. But he has been accused of destabilizing the security of the state and could face five years in prison.

"I have to give me back my freedom to travel outside the Moroccan court on October 29 after the decision to stop my hunger strike," the 55-year-old Mondi, a political history professor at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Mohamed V in Rabat, the letter said.

"I was in court on November 19 [Tribunal de Première Instance in Rabat] have been called, because the battle is not over yet," he Mondi, "in accordance with Article 206 has been accused of destabilizing the security of the state, adding that the Moroccan Penal Code."

Casablanca airport on October 6 after the authorities prevented him from traveling to Norway to participate in the CODESRIA in Africa or Senegal-based Council of Social Science Research and Development, a member of the scientific committee of the Mondi, has been on a hunger strike on August 10 seminar.

In September, the court summoned by the police and the National Association of threatening state security, among other things, has been charged.

According to the lawyer Abderrahim Jamal, Mondi Moroccans confidence in their national security and foreign funds to destabilize the charges.

Morocco Moroccan authorities banned journalists Mondi investigative journalism techniques and training of citizens of Ibn Rush, led in the "financial irregularities" on the grounds, he said. Mondi institute was shut down last December, "after the intervention of the state again," AP said.


Mondi given to him as an individual and institutional level, local, regional and international support, thanks. "All of this was a promotion and it was a great support to me; I am deeply touched," he said in the letter.

The main mandate is to promote academic and intellectual freedom in a number of international organizations are now CODESRIA, including the Middle East Studies Association and the Freedom of continuing aggression Mondi protest.

International responses

Front Line Defenders, Ireland, International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders "is concerned about the serious charges against Amati Mondi," said the 30 October.

Mondi and other basic human rights defenders told the court on November 19: "threaten the internal security of the state" charges are approved, Amati Mondi, His ham Almeria Each Salad, Wickham Missouri and Moroccan Mohamed Elsa face five-year prison sentence in accordance with Article 206. "

Mondi Amati Mondi freedom to travel beyond the International Support Committee to give back to Morocco has expressed satisfaction with the court's decision.

But for this latest "smear campaign and groundless accusations against Mondi, all the intimidation and harassment targeting him" like, Abdullah Hammond, the president of the United States and anthropology professor at Princeton University, said.

"This committee will continue to support Amati Mondi and will remain vigilant," he said.

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