Paris, March 07, 2015 (SPS) .- The NGO Reporters Without Borders (RWB) denounced on Friday a "hardening of the repression against journalists" in Morocco, citing several recent incidents among which was the expulsion of two French journalists accused of making a film without permission.
"In last months, press freedom in Morocco was marked by an intensification of repression against journalists," wrote RWB in a communiqué.
"In a context already difficult, the kingdom's authorities have above all been putting pressure on the press to ensure that “sensitive” subjects are not covered in a free and independent manner", says the NGO.
RWB evoked in particular the deportation on 16 February of French journalists Jean-Louis Perez and Pierre Chautard, who were doing a report for France 3 on the economic and social situation in Morocco four years after the “Moroccan Spring.”
In its communiquee, RWB also deplorer that the new code of Moroccan press, presented in October in a government council, has "not yet been adopted," and says that its measures could win more being "clarified and strengthened."