Bashir Hazem

Blog: http://hazzam82.maktoobblog.com/

Location: Goulmim, Morocco

28° 58' 46.8444" N, 10° 3' 41.472" W

Status: Released
Arrested between 08 Dec 2009 and 08 Feb 2010
Campaign Site: http://www.freebashir.org/

Moroccan blogger Bashir Hazem was arrested on December 8, 2009 following a protest in Tarjijt, during which students clashed with security forces, after posting a press release about the clash on his blog. He has been interrogated about his blogging, specifically his most recent post, which contained the signatures of a committee of arrested students.

Hazem was detained and put in solitary confinement for a period of time, then rejoined the other detainees in the prison. Hazem is a 26-year-old student of literature.

A Facebook group [ar] has been created to support blogger Bashir Hazem, who has been detained in Goulmim prison in the south of Morocco for publishing a statement about the intervention of the police force against an inhabitant of the Goulmim, on his blog "Al Boushara" ("the good news").

According to the President of the Moroccan Bloggers Association, Internet cafes in the city are being monitored in order to prevent Internet users from disseminating information about the event, and to prevent riots. The authorities have also arrested others suspected of spreading news about the protests, including an Internet cafe employee, for possessing protest materials and flyers.

Hazem was tried on December 14, and sentenced to 4 months in prison. Internet cafe employee Abdullah Boukhour was sentenced to one year in prison and a number of students and activists involved offline in the protest received sentences of six months.

Bachir has been released after the appeal hearing of February 8, in the town of Tiznit (100km south of Agadir).

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