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| | Laila Lalami | Tel Quel Threatened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Then, on August 15, in the absence of the editor-in-chief, the news director, and their lawyers, the judge closed the proceedings and found for the plaintiff, slapping the magazine with punitive damages of 1 million dirhams, plus a fine of 25.000 dirhams and a suspended jail sentence of two months for each of the journalists. |
 | | Some of you may not be familiar with Tel Quel, so let me put this in clear terms: Tel Quel is the best thing that's happened to the Moroccan press in the last five years. |
 | | It has broken many unspoken rules of self-censorship with its coverage of, among other things, the king's salary, the horrific border crossings of migrants, the incursions of Islamists on all aspects of the culture, the sex lives of Moroccans, the independence demonstrations in the Sahara, and so on. |
| www.lailalalami.com /blog/archives/003232.html (451 words) |
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