Rabat (Morocco), February 13, 2015 (SPS) - Nongovernmental human rights organisations (NGO) expressed their concern about the intimidations exerted in Morocco against torture victims, calling the authorities of this country to respect the United Nations’ Convention against Torture.
Nine human rights NGOs signed a declaration to call on the Moroccan authorities to “respect their obligations in conformity with the Convention against Torture and immediately put an end to this obvious intimidations,” following “the criminal proceedings to which were subjected several people, who filed a complaint for torture against Moroccan security agents and an organization that represent them.”
Amnesty International, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Alkarama Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Human Rights League, and the World Organization against Torture (OMCT), Redress, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (REDMDH) and Track Immunity Always (TRIAL) reacted “after the writ of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture by Morocco.”
They said that these lawsuits “clearly aim at intimidating not only the plaintiffs but also anyone who is considering filing a complaint for torture and the NGOs which would assist them in this procedure.” (SPS)
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