RABAT, Morocco – The jailed leader of a Moroccan protest movement, Nasser Zefzafi, has sewn his lips together after losing an appeal against a 20-year prison term, several sources said Tuesday. “Nasser (Zefzafi) has chosen this way of protesting to express his attachment to his freedom and to denounce reinforced security control” in prison, the inmate’s father Ahmed Zefzafi told AFP. ADVERTISEMENTA lawyer for Nasser Zefzafi said he had sewn his lips together, along with a fellow jailed protester. “Detainees Nasser Zefzafi and Mohammed al-Haki have stitched their mouths in protest”, lawyer Mohammed Aghnaj said in a Facebook post. Leaders of the Hirak protest movement which rocked Morocco in 2016 and 2017 on Friday had their sentences upheld by a court of appeal in Casablanca.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 10, 2019 00:11 UTC