(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))
RABAT, 30th July, 2017 (WAM) -- King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Saturday pardoned more than a thousand people who were under arrest for taking part in protests in the troubled northern Rif region, the justice ministry announced.
The monarch pardoned a total of 1,178 detainees, including a number who had joined demonstrations in the northern port city of al-Hoceima and surrounding area, the ministry said in a statement issued shortly before King Mohammed made a televised speech to mark 18 years on the throne.
The justice ministry said pardons were granted to those "who have not committed crimes and who are not implicated in serious acts ... bearing in mind their family and humanitarian conditions."
WAM/Ahlam Al Mazrooi/Chris Moran
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