Morocco Protest

Iranian women, who have been banned from soccer stadiums in Iran since 1980, have taken their protest to the globe's biggest sporting event: the World Cup.

Morocco wants to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after quitting the bloc in protest at its decision to accept Western Sahara as a member, King Mohammed VI said Sunday.

Hundreds of lawyers have registered to defend two women who went on trial in Morocco on Monday accused of "gross indecency" for wearing dresses considered provocative, an activist said.

Morocco expelled two French women activists who bared their breasts and kissed each other outside an ancient mosque on Tuesday in a protest about gay rights in a country where homosexuality is illegal.

A human rights lawyer says 11 activists arrested during a labor protest for chanting anti-monarchy slogans have been convicted of illegally demonstrating and sentenced to up to a year in prison.

Morocco's king said on Saturday he did not know the gravity of the offences committed by the Spanish paedophile whose royal pardon sparked violent protests, and promised an investigation.

Dozens of protesters were injured, some seriously, during a clash with security forces on Monday who tried to storm the headquarters of a Left-wing party in Casablanca, witnesses and reporters said.The protesters had sought refuge in the offices of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) after the security forces broke up a peaceful demonstration calling...

Several thousand people rallied in Moroccan cities on Sunday demanding political reform and limits on the powers of the King, the latest protests demanding change to have rocked the region.Over 2,000 people took to the streets of the capital Rabat, 4,000 according to the organisers, shouting: "The people want change."In Casablanca, the North Africa...

Iranian women, who have been banned from soccer stadiums in Iran since 1980, have taken their protest to the globe's biggest sporting event: the World Cup.

Morocco wants to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after quitting the bloc in protest at its decision to accept Western Sahara as a member, King Mohammed VI said Sunday.

Hundreds of lawyers have registered to defend two women who went on trial in Morocco on Monday accused of "gross indecency" for wearing dresses considered provocative, an activist said.

Morocco expelled two French women activists who bared their breasts and kissed each other outside an ancient mosque on Tuesday in a protest about gay rights in a country where homosexuality is illegal.

A human rights lawyer says 11 activists arrested during a labor protest for chanting anti-monarchy slogans have been convicted of illegally demonstrating and sentenced to up to a year in prison.

Morocco's king said on Saturday he did not know the gravity of the offences committed by the Spanish paedophile whose royal pardon sparked violent protests, and promised an investigation.

Dozens of protesters were injured, some seriously, during a clash with security forces on Monday who tried to storm the headquarters of a Left-wing party in Casablanca, witnesses and reporters said.The protesters had sought refuge in the offices of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) after the security forces broke up a peaceful demonstration calling...

Several thousand people rallied in Moroccan cities on Sunday demanding political reform and limits on the powers of the King, the latest protests demanding change to have rocked the region.Over 2,000 people took to the streets of the capital Rabat, 4,000 according to the organisers, shouting: "The people want change."In Casablanca, the North Africa...