At least two rulers in North Africa felt a bit generous this week. In Morocco, King Mohammed issued an order to free 201 people from prison. Their release was branded as an “exceptional pardon,” for elderly migrant-“prisoners” who are sick and therefore free on humanitarian grounds. The feeling of pardon is not just in Morocco. Although the population welcomed the release of the prisoners, Hirak activists say that most of them did not commit crime to pardon them, to begin with.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 05, 2020 17:48 UTC