You have commented 338 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Africa North
Questions over Morocco jail death
2006-11-17
Human rights activists in Morocco are demanding an investigation into the death of a man in prison. Zakaria El Miloudi was arrested along with thousands of others following a series of suicide bombings which killed 41 people in Casablanca in May 2003. He is the second person from the 2003 arrests to die in custody, after the death of a hunger striker last year.

It is not clear how Mr El Miloudi died, but it is thought that he was suffering from asthma.
Trouble breathing, huh? A pillow over the face can do that.
An autopsy can tell the difference between suffocation and asthma. Wonder if that was done or if the warden said, "never mind, we see dese all da time!"
Abdurrahim Mouhtad of the human rights association An-Naseer says they are devastated by the news. "We are very moved and saddened to have lost someone who is a Moroccan and a Muslim because we believe he was innocent," he said. "And those who found him saw that he had died far from his children and his family, far from his home in a cell with a locked door in a detention centre - it's very sad, very sad."
My heart [urp!] bleeds...
Eating chili late at night will do that, Fred. Try Malox.
The human rights group says it will wait to hear the results of an autopsy but it cannot understand how a man who suffered minor ailments came to die in his prison cell.

Although Morocco has been praised in particular by the United States for its tough stance on terrorism it seems the human cost of that approach is mounting.
Thank you for your opinion, Aunty Beebs. Eat me.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Looks dead to me.
What was your question?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-11-17 16:19  

00:00