| The court of appeal of Rabat started on Friday the hearing of Mustapha Alaoui, a journalist sued for publishing a communiqu? whereby a group, "Assaika," claims responsibility for last May 16 attacks in Casablanca. The journalist, who edits and manages the independent Al-Ousbou weekly in Arabic, had been interrogated by the judicial police, before being put in custody in a Sal jail, near Rabat. The public prosecutor of the Casablanca court of appeal had said in a release that the publication by Al-Ousbou of the statement, which other publications abstained from circulating, was a violation of the law, especially the anti-terrorism law, enacted on May 29. |