Moroccan journalist receives one-year prison sentence for 'illegal abortion'

Activists with posters of the journalist held a protest outside the tribunal last month.

Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail for having had an “illegal abortion” and sexual relations outside marriage.

Her gynaecologist was given two years and her Sudanese fiance one year in prison, while an anaesthetist was handed a one-year suspended sentence and a medical assistant eight months, also suspended.