Morocco activist jailed for 2 years for Facebook post

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A Moroccan activist has been sentenced to two years in prison for "insulting the national flag and the symbol of the state" in a Facebook post, his lawyer said on Friday.

Abdelali Bahmad, 35, was arrested in mid-December and charged over an October Facebook post in which he said he "could not afford to buy the matches to burn the Moroccan flag as he needed to eat"


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