Blogger Kacem El Ghazzali on Demoracy in Morocco

Mon Jun 10 2013
On fairobserver.com Cyberdissidents Blogger Board member Kacem El Ghazzali, analyzes different campaigns to promote individual freedoms in Morocco, what impact the constitutional changes had, and what the country needs. El Ghazzali writes: "Democracy for us is not a technical process, reduced at its edges, between the people and the ballot boxes. We see it as a social and...

Breaking: Wanted for Atheism

Thu May 2 2013
According to an article in FreeArabs.com, Imad Eddin Habib, a 22 year old Moroccan Atheist Activist, is wanted by Moroccan police for questioning. The article descibes his recently created facebook group "Council of Ex-Muslims in Morocco," an Atheist activist group that has gained notoriety in the country. Habib was recently forced underground because of this, something...

Blogger Board Member Featured in Spiegel

Fri Mar 29 2013
Blogger Board Member Featured in Spiegel
CyberDissidents.org Blogger Board Member Kacem El Ghazzali was featured in article on Spiegel International for his role as a blogger, Atheist and dissident in Morocco. The article says "At a  At a time when many young people go to college, he saw no choice but to apply for political asylum in Switzerland, where he has spent the past two years." It...

Criminals of Opinion and Free Expression

By: Kacem El Ghazzali
Tue Oct 9 2012
Criminals of Opinion and Free Expression
The day I created my e-blog on the net, I didn’t know I would sink in a borderless sea, a sea with no shores, no ports to be found… only waves, treasures and deeply sunk secrets. I didn’t realize then I would enter a true war, using totally different weapons, not less dangerous than the ones used by soldiers in -deadly and all covered by blood- battle fields, neither knew I that because...

Morocco Cracks Down on Democracy Rappers

Thu Oct 4 2012
The North African country has locked up musicians deemed to be critical of the state. Now one jailed rapper’s entourage is fighting against time to get his message out and rally the country’s floundering democracy movement.‬ On Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, the forthcoming album from dissident Moroccan rapper El Haqed "whose name means “the Enraged” "one track stands out...