Moroccan Police Break Up Rally, Hurt Dozens-Witness
REUTERS AFRICA: RABAT - Dozens of people were injured in Morocco's biggest city, Casablanca, on Sunday when riot police used truncheons to break up a rally by several hundred demonstrators demanding reforms, witnesses said.

"This was a peaceful rally, we don't know what made the police attack a peaceful protest," Ghizlaine Benameur, an opposition activist who took part in the rally, told Reuters by telephone from Casablanca.

"This has been their most violent intervention since the start of the protests last month," she said.

Spokesmen at Morocco's interior ministry could not immediately be reached for comment. >>> Reuters | Monday, March 14, 2011

Dozens Jailed over Morocco Blast
BBC: A Moroccan court has sentenced more than 40 people to up to 30 years in prison over a suicide bombing last year at an internet cafe in Casablanca.

The bomber died in the attack, and three people were wounded.

The state news agency MAP said that those accused had been planning a string of attacks in Casablanca using home-made explosives.

The plot was uncovered by the investigation following the internet cafe bombing, authorities said.

The sentences came one day after another major terrorism trial got under way, involving the alleged leader of an extremist cell accused of links to al-Qaeda and planning to murder prominent figures within Morocco. >>> | October 17, 2008

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