Prominent Islamist Faces Trial

Despite boasting the freest press in North Africa, Morocco is once again coming in for criticism on the freedom of expression front. This latest affair centres around a newspaper interview given by prominent Islamist Nadia Yassine. Yassine is the daughter of Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine, charismatic leader of Islamist group Al Adl wal Ihsane (Justice and Charity). She was charged, along with the newspaper's director, with 'undermining the King' in early June, following the publication of a newspaper interview in which she stated both her preference for a Moroccan republic and her belief that the Moroccan monarchy would soon fall (a

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