And Rabat court on Wednesday rejected a request for provisional freedom for health reasons for the Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissam Lachgarjudged by blasphemy having posted a photograph in which he appears with a shirt with the phrase “Allah is a lesbian“. The lawyer Naima El Gallaf presented the request for provisional freedom before Rabat’s Court of First Instance, claiming that all guarantees of appearance are fulfilled and that the delicate state of health of Lachgar, who suffers from cancer, justifies his release.” Impute, “said Gallaf.
Another lawyers, Mohamed Khattab, recalled that the activist receives treatment against cancer that affects her arm, and that in September she must undergo surgery that could involve the amputation of the limb. Gallaf also denounced that Lachgar remains in prison isolation regime, and unable to communicate or interact with other inmates during recreation time.
Brings deliberate, The Court decided to reject the request for provisional freedomand postponed his eyes until next Wednesday, at the request of the defense, to prepare his allegations. Moroccan legislation punishes with sentences from six months to two years in jailin addition to fines of up to 200,000 Dirhams (18,900 euros), whom “threatens the Islamic religion, against the monarchical regime or incite to attempt against the territorial integrity of the kingdom.”
The penalty can reach up to five years in prison If the act is disseminated by electronic, printed or audiovisual public means. Lachgar, co -founder of the alternative movement for individual freedoms (Mali), was arrested on August 10 in Casablanca and then transferred to a Rabat prison.
The activist published on May 31 and July 31 in her account in X a photo in which he appears wearing a shirt with the expression in Arabic and English: “Allah is Lesbian” (Allah is a lesbian), and accompanied the image with a message in which he described Muslim religion as “fascist” and “misogynistic”.
