Demands to open an investigation into death threats to female activists in connection with the Family Code discussion.

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The National Front against Extremism and Terrorism sent a letter to the Chief Public Prosecutor, requesting that procedures be taken to investigate and investigate “death threats, spreading hatred, discrimination, and incitement to terrorism.”

The Front reported in this message that many electronic accounts intended to target “a group of female activists, most of whom are feminists, human rights activists, journalists, and other names from the artistic community,” as part of the open discussion against the backdrop of reviewing the Family Code.

The letter revealed that “these attacks are carried out under fictitious names, as their owners publish comments containing death threats against female activists, inciting against them, and accusing them of encouraging corruption and fighting Islam,” noting that “some female activists received private messages directly containing these threats, and their description included “It called for their physical liquidation, as well as threats directed at their children, relatives, and co-workers.”

The letter stressed that these practices are “a violation of personal safety and are not innocent and targeted in their form and timing,” explaining that the mentioned comments are “an explicit call for murder by political Islam or by its followers, and these are crimes covered by the criminal law and require prosecution of those behind them because they mean people themselves.” These threats may also mean anyone who disagrees with their opinion, whoever this person may be.”

The letter considered that “what these groups are doing in the name of political Islam is against reforming the Family Code,” considering it “an attempt to obstruct the initiative of His Majesty King Mohammed VI to reform the Family Code by launching a series of civil political consultations that are far from conferring sanctity on the issue, in harmony with the movement’s demands.” “Moroccan human rights law and the state’s requirements for its active involvement in the United Nations.”

The Front concluded in its letter that the aforementioned threats constitute “a criminal terrorist act that spreads hatred, discrimination, insecurity, and insecurity in the public space and calls for and incites terrorism,” stressing that this matter requires the Public Prosecution to take action, open an investigation into it, and arrest the parties behind it.

This comes at a time when the body charged with amending and reforming the Family Code submitted, a few days ago, its report to the Prime Minister at the end of last month, which is scheduled to be submitted to King Mohammed VI, regarding meetings and encounters with a group of political parties, associations, unions, and constitutional and non-constitutional institutions, during the past six months. .

The report included a set of proposals aimed at adapting the legal rules to the needs of Moroccan society and the transformations it has witnessed recently, as well as the international agreements ratified by the Kingdom, such as deleting the distinction between divorce and divorcing, and establishing a judicial divorce system, taking the date of issuance of judicial rulings. The effective date of the divorce, not the date of its occurrence.