European Parliament
Cohn-Bendit (Verts/ALE ).
(FR)
Mr President, on behalf of this Parliament, I would like to ask you to speak to the Moroccan Government, and in particular the King of Morocco, to call for the release of a Moroccan journalist, Mr Lmrabet, who yesterday was sentenced to three years in prison, simply for having written articles criticising the situation in Morocco. Mr Lmrabet is on hunger strike; he therefore risks dying if there is no outside intervention. I would therefore ask the President – and we are ready to forward the file to him – to speak to the Moroccan Government in order to try to save this journalist’s life.

