Sunday, August 02, 2009

Morocco: Publish and be banned

Al Bawaba reports two Moroccan weekly magazines were taken off news stands on Saturday after they published an opinion poll on the performance of King Mohammed VI in the past decade, officials said.

TelQuel and Nichane published the poll that was conducted with France's Le Monde newspaper on the first decade of the monarch's reign.

The Interior Ministry said TelQuel and Nichane were seized for violating the kingdom's media code
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