Mohamed Ziane, 79, had gone on trial last year after he accused the kingdom's security services of faking a video purporting to show him in a compromising situation with a married woman in a hotel room.
RABAT, MOROCCO - A Moroccan former rights minister who became an outspoken government critic was imprisoned Monday after a court upheld his three-year sentence, his son and a judicial source said.
The interior ministry in January last year filed a complaint accusing him of criminally "disseminating false accusations". "He was convicted for all possible and imaginable charges, it's an aberration the likes of which I've never seen," Ali Reda Ziane said.
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