Have not been able to take one step. The youth of February 20 and the Coordination of former Islamist prisoners staged a peaceful march on Sunday to alleged illegal secret detention center is located in securing the borders between Rabat and Temara nearby, hidden in a wooded area, surrounded by tight security and protected by some insurmountable walls.
The starting point was a shopping center outside the Moroccan capital, in just over a mile from the center, around have dubbed 'green jail' for being in the forest, this newspaper has a Temara young neighbor. Around 300 people of the opposition movement in the system of February 20, Salafists and members of nongovernmental organizations such as the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (ASVDH) have gathered in the mall, but have not succeeded in organizing the march to be dispersed by force by law enforcement.
In the vicinity of the meeting the police presence was obvious and far exceeds the number of demonstrators between riot, auxiliary forces and "special operations units, trained to act in cases of terrorism," said Nizar Benamate, young people from 20 February, referring to various groups of agents protecting their identity with masks.
According to the AMDH, 44 people have been detained have been released but all except one of the protesters and have recorded fifty minor injuries. "Agents have also removed several cameras and mobile phones." In addition, the Coordinator of former Islamists arrested dozens of arrests have been reported in cities like Fez Salafists trying to move to Rabat to participate in the march.
Although progress has been held, the president of the AMDH, Khadijah Riadi, has described as "victory" the initiative because it "confirms the fear of the state you know what happens in this center." "This prison of shame back to Morocco in the Years of Lead Hassan II", tells ELMUNDO. is a Salafi who was held in the center and prefers anonymity.
"It is the headquarters of the DST (Directorate of Territorial Security), the Moroccan secret services, but it is only an administrative center, also houses an underground prison where torture is the order of the day," he continues. Late last month, the moderate Islamist PJD (Justice and Democracy Party) asked the First Chamber of Parliament Moroccan Interior Ministry to investigate the existence of the alleged center.
The PJD claimed then to have collected numerous accounts of the passage of some detainees in its cells. However, since the Interior ensure that all detention centers in the country are governed by the law and refer to "all victims have the right to file a complaint with the competent authorities." Once dissolved the demonstration outside the capital, some young people from 20 February and Salafi groups have moved to the other side of town, to continue their protests on the main rabatí on Avenue Mohammed V, where have also been suppressed and dispersed.
"It was brutal, are loaded against women and the elderly of 70 years," he told this newspaper with a strong blow to the eyebrow and the blood-stained white robe Guemmouri Khalid, Salafi who spent four years in prison and says Temara have been tortured for two weeks. Coordination of former Islamist detainees, who participated in the march, claimed to be working for the release of Islamist prisoners, abolish the antiterrorism law, collect all the information on the various forms of abuse and combat impunity for their responsible.
The 2003 anti-terrorism law enacted after the attacks in Casablanca that killed 45 people, has been criticized by organizations like Human Rights Watch, which has denounced illegal and secret detentions violate Moroccan protocols and international conventions. In addition, HRW has already addressed the existence of witnesses who claimed they were detained by plainclothes officers and transported to secret locations blindfolded, where they could spend days or even weeks.
The Movement was born February 20 through the Facebook network and is the engine of social protests demanding more democracy in Morocco, a constitutional monarchy, to corruption and dissolution of government and parliament. On 9 March, after the first manifestation of the Movement, held on the date it is named, the king gave a speech to the nation in which he pledged to reform the constitution to extend the powers of the prime minister and Parliament.
They created a committee must submit its findings in July for submission to a referendum. A concession insufficient for the drivers of the protests, which does not give legitimacy to the committee to be appointed directly from the top and, say, for his "stunted" proposals. Moreover, this Sunday has been made public that Himma Fuad Ali, founder of Authenticity and Modernity Party (Pam)-popularly known as 'the friend of the king' by the personal relationship between Mohamed VI-Himma and follows from office within the Executive of training, but not abandoned.
Himma, architect of the party which brought together more votes in the last election, was deputy minister of Interior and is considered one of the most close to the monarch. His departure from active politics was one of the claims of the Movement of February 20. 
The starting point was a shopping center outside the Moroccan capital, in just over a mile from the center, around have dubbed 'green jail' for being in the forest, this newspaper has a Temara young neighbor. Around 300 people of the opposition movement in the system of February 20, Salafists and members of nongovernmental organizations such as the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (ASVDH) have gathered in the mall, but have not succeeded in organizing the march to be dispersed by force by law enforcement.
In the vicinity of the meeting the police presence was obvious and far exceeds the number of demonstrators between riot, auxiliary forces and "special operations units, trained to act in cases of terrorism," said Nizar Benamate, young people from 20 February, referring to various groups of agents protecting their identity with masks.
According to the AMDH, 44 people have been detained have been released but all except one of the protesters and have recorded fifty minor injuries. "Agents have also removed several cameras and mobile phones." In addition, the Coordinator of former Islamists arrested dozens of arrests have been reported in cities like Fez Salafists trying to move to Rabat to participate in the march.
Although progress has been held, the president of the AMDH, Khadijah Riadi, has described as "victory" the initiative because it "confirms the fear of the state you know what happens in this center." "This prison of shame back to Morocco in the Years of Lead Hassan II", tells ELMUNDO. is a Salafi who was held in the center and prefers anonymity.
"It is the headquarters of the DST (Directorate of Territorial Security), the Moroccan secret services, but it is only an administrative center, also houses an underground prison where torture is the order of the day," he continues. Late last month, the moderate Islamist PJD (Justice and Democracy Party) asked the First Chamber of Parliament Moroccan Interior Ministry to investigate the existence of the alleged center.
The PJD claimed then to have collected numerous accounts of the passage of some detainees in its cells. However, since the Interior ensure that all detention centers in the country are governed by the law and refer to "all victims have the right to file a complaint with the competent authorities." Once dissolved the demonstration outside the capital, some young people from 20 February and Salafi groups have moved to the other side of town, to continue their protests on the main rabatí on Avenue Mohammed V, where have also been suppressed and dispersed.
"It was brutal, are loaded against women and the elderly of 70 years," he told this newspaper with a strong blow to the eyebrow and the blood-stained white robe Guemmouri Khalid, Salafi who spent four years in prison and says Temara have been tortured for two weeks. Coordination of former Islamist detainees, who participated in the march, claimed to be working for the release of Islamist prisoners, abolish the antiterrorism law, collect all the information on the various forms of abuse and combat impunity for their responsible.
The 2003 anti-terrorism law enacted after the attacks in Casablanca that killed 45 people, has been criticized by organizations like Human Rights Watch, which has denounced illegal and secret detentions violate Moroccan protocols and international conventions. In addition, HRW has already addressed the existence of witnesses who claimed they were detained by plainclothes officers and transported to secret locations blindfolded, where they could spend days or even weeks.
The Movement was born February 20 through the Facebook network and is the engine of social protests demanding more democracy in Morocco, a constitutional monarchy, to corruption and dissolution of government and parliament. On 9 March, after the first manifestation of the Movement, held on the date it is named, the king gave a speech to the nation in which he pledged to reform the constitution to extend the powers of the prime minister and Parliament.
They created a committee must submit its findings in July for submission to a referendum. A concession insufficient for the drivers of the protests, which does not give legitimacy to the committee to be appointed directly from the top and, say, for his "stunted" proposals. Moreover, this Sunday has been made public that Himma Fuad Ali, founder of Authenticity and Modernity Party (Pam)-popularly known as 'the friend of the king' by the personal relationship between Mohamed VI-Himma and follows from office within the Executive of training, but not abandoned.
Himma, architect of the party which brought together more votes in the last election, was deputy minister of Interior and is considered one of the most close to the monarch. His departure from active politics was one of the claims of the Movement of February 20.
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