Morocco
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- March 10, 1972, revised on September 4, 1992 and amended in September 1996. A new constitution was approved by referendum on July 1, 2011
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- is based on Islamic law and French law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Chamber of Counselors and Chamber of Representatives
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
Muslim majority
From the country
- DECEMBER 22, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. COURT SENTENCES TWO BOMB SUSPECTS TO DEATH
a court handed death sentences to two Moroccans arrested in 2005 on suspicion of helping organise suicide attacks in 2003 that killed 45 people in Casablanca, lawyers said.
- OCTOBER 27, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. RABAT ‘HAS WILL’ TO SCRAP DEATH PENALTY
Morocco has the political will to abolish the death penalty, which has not been applied since 1993, the country’s justice minister told a newspaper.
- OCTOBER 4, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT COULD SOON BE ABOLISHED
a bill that would abolish capital punishment in Morocco is scheduled to be presented to parliament within the few next months, said Bouchra Khiari, deputy of the opposition party Le Front des Forces Démocratiques (FFD).
- JUNE 19, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. CALL FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY IN MOROCCO
the World Coalition against the death penalty held its general assembly in Casablanca on June 17-18. The special session was dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco, North Africa and the Middle East.
- MARCH 27, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. THIRTY DEATH ROW PRISONERS GO ON "OPEN-ENDED HUNGER STRIKE"
thirty detainees sentenced to death in the central prison in Kenitra, Morocco...
- JANUARY 1, 2006MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes..
- NOVEMBER 18, 2005MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. KING PARDONS 10,000 PRISONERS
King Mohammed of Morocco pardoned or reduced the prison sentences of 10,000 people to mark the 50th anniversary of independence, Justice Ministry officials said.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2005MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
Morocco retains the death penalty for ordinary crimes and military crimes.
- JULY 4, 2005MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. TWO RADICAL ISLAMISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Moroccan court sentenced two radical Islamists to death and jailed four of their followers for life on charges that included killing five Moroccans, one of them Jewish.
- JUNE 4, 2005MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO. TWO PEOPLE CONDEMNED TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR 'PREMEDITATED MURDER'
two members of the terrorist "Alhijra wa takfir" group, belonging to the cell of Nador, North-East Morocco, were sentenced to capital punishment by the Rabat Appellate court. S.L, 41, and H.H, 24, were convicted of ‘premeditated murder’, ‘beheading and h
- MAY 26, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
ITALY. TORCHLIT DEMONSTRATION FOR MAJDA, A MOROCCAN WOMAN AT RISK OF DECAPITATION IN SAUDI ARABIA
the plight of Majda Mustapha Mahir, a 40-year old Moroccan woman condemned to death in Saudi Arabia for the murder of her husband in 1998, took Hands Off Cain and the Association of Moroccan Women in Italy to the streets of Rome in protest.
- FEBRUARY 3, 2005ItalyDEATH PENALTY
ITALY. MAN RISKS DEATH PENALTY IF EXTRADITED
Italy’s Interior Minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, put out an extradition order on Moroccan national Mohamed Daki, acquitted of taking part in international terrorism a week previously by a Milan tribunal. The presence of the Moroccan national in Italy constitut