Morocco sentences BDS activist to one year in jail ...Kuwait

A court in Morocco has sentenced an activist from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement to one year in jail for inciting violence, after urging a public blockade on the US embassy for providing weapons to Israel amid the Gaza war. On Tuesday, the Casablanca Court of First Instance charged Ismail Lghazaoui, an activist in the BDS Morocco group, with "inciting crimes and misdemeanours through electronic means."   He was tried under Article 1-299 of the Moroccan Penal Code and received the maximum punishment of one year in jail and a $500 fine.   Lghazaoui, 34, was detained on 19 November in Casablanca, a few days after he called on Tangier port workers a

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