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News Roundup: Morocco Upholds Sentence for YouTuber; Village hopes to draw ‘Game of Thrones’ fans; Ceuta and Melilla want an independent economic model.

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February 19, 2020

Three stories you need to read today. Compiled and broken down for you by Reporting Morocco student journalists–every day. Brought to you from the School for International Training’s journalism program, Rabat.

Morocco Upholds Sentence for Moroccan YouTuber ‘Moul Kaskita’

Source: Morocco World News

Lede: A Moroccan court sentenced the YouTuber to four years in prison in December 2019 for disrespecting Moroccans, public institutions, and King Mohammed VI.

Key background: The YouTuber appealed the verdict of the First Instance Court in Settat in after a judge handed him a four-year prison sentence on December 26.

Checkpoint: Ceuta

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By SUTTON RAPHAEL

Lead: Student Sutton Raphael walks through the international checkpoint at Ceuta and observes life in the walled-off Spanish enclave. Fnideq and other Moroccan cities just kilometers away from the border serve as the last stop for many sub-Saharan migrants seeking an illegal passage into Ceuta.

 

The Moroccan border officer takes one glance at the golden outline of an eagle printed on the cover of my passport and nods before handing it back. This recognizable symbol makes my passage through Ceuta’s international border checkpoint easier than most.

It is Monday, and I parade into the Spanish enclave among a steady stream of Moroccan women.

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