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Ali Anouzla, director of the Arabic version of independent news website Lakome arrested last week for posting a link to an Al-Qaeda video threatening Morocco has been charged with defending and inciting "terrorism", his lawyers said on Wednesday.
According to news24, Anouzla was arrested on 17 September after his website posted a link to the video attributed to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), the terror network's North African affiliate.
The 41-minute video, posted on the Internet on September 12 by Aqim and entitled "Morocco: the kingdom of corruption and despotism", calls for jihad in the North African country and lashes out at King Mohamed VI.
The journalist was transferred to Sale prison, near Rabat, where prisoners convicted on terrorism charges are held, after being detained at a police station in Casablanca since his arrest.
Anouzla is an experienced journalist formerly with pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat who is known for sharply criticising state institutions, including the monarchy, effectively a taboo subject in the Moroccan media, and has been prosecuted in the past.
