A court in Casablanca has handed down three-year suspended jail terms to two journalists for defaming Islam and breaching public morality in jokes published in a Moroccan magazine. The court also ordered the payment of damages of 80,000 dirhams ($9,320) for "defamation against Islam and the monarchy". The ruling on Monday also banned the weekly magazine Nichane from publishing for two months. The contentious jokes featured the Prophet Muhammad, the late Moroccan King Hassan II, Islamists and Moroccans in an article entitled: How Moroccans laugh at religion, sex and politics.