24 March 2008

freedom for moroccan jailed over facebook profile...

here's some good news for your monday morning spilling over from last week...

a moroccan who was jailed for creating a facebook profile of a prince has been released from prison...fouad mourtada, a 26-year-old information technology engineer, was freed on tuesday after being pardoned by the king...

fouad mourtada had been given a three-year prison term and fined 10,000 dirhams (u.s. $1,320) in february for creating a profile of morocco's prince moulay rachid on facebook...he was convicted after a trial in casablanca...

two amnesty international delegates observed the trial...they said they were concerned that the trial failed to satisfy international fair trial standards...

benedicte goderiaux, one of the organisation's observers, welcomed the release, but said "Allegations that Fouad Mourtada was ill-treated by police during interrogation still need to be investigated,"...

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