the Regional authorities of Martila town near Tetuan (Rio Martell during the Spanish protectorate), prevented journalist Sonia Moreno from presenting her book. Morocco, the uncomfortable neighborrecently published.
The event was scheduled to be held on Wednesday at the Lershondi Cultural Center in Martil, the eve of Eid The high-level meeting held by Spain and Morocco in MadridDirectors of the country’s Cervantes Institute and Spanish diplomats were invited.
Although those responsible for the event had provided the local authorities with a list and posters of all the activities scheduled during the month of December, it was only 24 hours before the presenter of the event, Spaniard Jawad Al-Jash, informed the EL ESPAÑOL collaborator that the book or “They will intervene” himself.
Al-Jash told him: “I regret to inform you that I was informed this afternoon that displaying the book cannot take place except after a legal import (of the book) is carried out through an approved library.”
Likewise, they claimed that Sonia Moreno’s “press status” was “not valid.”
Moreno, a former correspondent in Morocco, left the country in 2020, when… The authorities withdrew his accreditation to work as a journalist. Despite this, she continued to report as a special envoy and travel regularly to the country.
“I don’t work in Morocco without asking permission, but this Wednesday I wasn’t going to a press event, they simply invited me to present the book and I felt an aura of hope in the event of a small opening. In any case, the organizers informed the authorities in advance, but they did not unofficially suspend the show until the end of the previous day,” says Moreno.
book title, Morocco, the uncomfortable neighborNeither the leader nor the caliph liked him in previous meetings; Personalities from the Moroccan independence period belong to the authority’s staff under the umbrella of the Ministry of the Interior.
The journalist decided Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council Its Special Rapporteur violated their right to freedom of expression.
As he said in the conclusion of his book. Moreno was spied on from April 2020 to January 2021 together programming Which works in the same way as Pegasus, recording personal information from your mobile phone without your consent.
International security company Lazarus Technology scanned her peripherals and found infections on one of her mobile phones and on her personal computer, where a folder of personal documents and They recorded it up to 64 times.
This investigation is in court in the investigation phase, where three people under investigation have been summoned to testify: two of them hold Moroccan and Spanish nationalities. One of those investigated He was photographed with some former ministersLike Mikel Isita and Salvador Illa.
The Lershondi Cultural Center belongs to the Catholic Church in Morocco and is staffed by volunteers of different nationalities. Its headquarters are located in the old church of Río Martín, which was rehabilitated in the 1990s by the NGO Arquitectura y Compromiso Social with the support of other entities and individuals.
It has been developing social and cultural revitalization activities targeting the university community, foreigners, youth, migrants, civil society and residents of the region for three decades.
The Center has also recently been subjected to other cancellations of events related to Palestine.