RABAT: Morocco handed prison terms to more than a dozen people arrested during youth-led protests last year, after convicting them of obstructing traffic, their lawyers said on Friday.
The Gen Z movement, which took the usually stable kingdom by surprise in late September 2025, demanded sweeping reforms in public health care and education.
A court in Casablanca sentenced 18 people in total, with 13 of them given eight-month prison terms. They were due to be released on Friday after completing their sentences, defense lawyer Souad Brahma told AFP.
Two others received one-year sentences with 10 months behind bars, while three defendants who had been freed pending their trial were given suspended 12-month terms, the lawyer added.
In the same case, six minors are due to appear in court on June 19, another lawyer, El Hassan Essonni, told AFP. Four of them were held in pretrial detention and two released pending trial.
