Rabat: A woman journalist accused of having sex before marriage has been released from prison today after a Moroccan king pardoned her. In Morocco, premarital sex is a legal punishable offense. Raisavani, a female journalist from the country, was arrested on August 31 on a complaint of illegal abortion while walking out of a clinic.
King Mohammed VI pardoned :
Raizawani, who said that the man who had sex was her boyfriend and that he would soon marry her. Government sources also said that Raisawani had escaped from the prison due to the pardon. In a statement released by the Ministry of Justice, Hajar Raizawani (28) works in the Arabic-language newspaper, Akbar al-Yawm. she was arrested on August 31 on a charge of unlawful abortion while leaving a clinic in Rabat.
She denied having an abortion in court. She said she was treated for internal bleeding. She was also supported by a gynecologist. But after medical tests she discovered she had an abortion. Raizawani, who was accused of having sex before marriage and her accomplices for illegal abortion, was jailed on September 30.
Protests erupted in the face of fierce opposition from human rights activists over the imprisonment. After almost a month and a half of struggle, the king of Sudan pardoned them after it became clear that Raisavani and her friend were about to have a legal marriage. Following this, journalist Raizawani's sentence to her fianc,, gynecologist, anesthesiologist and paramedic was canceled, the Justice Ministry said. Commenting on this, Raisavani condemned the affair as a political retaliation. She said she was questioned by police about her family and her own writing.
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