Rights: Stepping forward, stepping back

Against the backdrop of much-publicised human rights advances, the future of the news weekly Le Journal, often accused of going out of its way to irritate the Moroccan state, has been imperiled by massive libel damages awarded against it. The case is the latest and most expensive of a series of recent judgments that have seen fines or prison sentences imposed on newspapers, with the most severe being reserved for the more critical

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