Rabat, May 8, 2025 (AFP) - Morocco commutes detained ex-minister's sentence

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2025-05-08

A Moroccan court has commuted the prison sentence of opposition figure and former minister Mohamed Ziane from five to three years, his lawyer said Thursday. The former human rights minister had already been detained since 2022 and was serving a three-year term in a different case. Ziane, 82, the former president of the Rabat bar association, was convicted on charges of "embezzlement and squandering of public funds", his son and lawyer Ali Reda Zi......

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