According to a local rights group and news agencies, police in Morocco on Monday expanded dozens of people, as they are ready to end the third day of protests for education and health reforms.
A heavy security presence in the cities was discovered as the capital Rabat and Moroccan’s largest city Casablanca as well as Agadir, Tangier and Ojda.
Officials have tried to stop groups of young people from gathering groups since online calls for protests over the weekends.
Both AFP and Reuters News Agencies, citing journalists and witnesses, said that the police arrested the young protesters who were trying to raise slogans or talk to the press.
Arrested rights activist
The president of a child protection association, Najat Anouer, whom she was talking to the media and releasing two hours later.
He said, “I arrest the cam here to investigate the allegations and have been arrested myself.”
Hakim Sikauk, president of the Morocco Association for Human Rights, or Rabat Branch of AMDH, said “more than 60 arrests in Rabat” and unknown number in cities of Cassabalanca, Agadir, Ozda and Mecons.
The organization said on Facebook that two of its Rabat branch members were arrested.
AMDH had earlier stated that the arrest “confirm the rift on free voices and ban the right to freedom of expression.”
Police allegedly arrested more than 100 people in the weekend in Rabat, Sikauk said, and in dozens of other places the youth took at least 11 cities of Morocco on the road.
On Sunday night in Moroccan’s largest city of Cassabnoca, protesters gave information to a major highway. In the Agadir, the video roaming on social media showed the students who spread the police near the police premises.
Most of the protesters detained over the weekend were released, Sikauk said on Monday.
Why are the youth trying to oppose Morocco?
A major complaint is that the North African nations are constructing a stadium in preparing to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, ignoring public health and education crises.
“The stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals?” People chanting in the weekend.
“We want a better health system and accountability,” 25 -year -old Brahim told the Reuters in Rabat on Monday that before migrating people involved in the protest as police.
Protests come at the time of popular dissatisfaction on Morocco’s social inequalities, which have affected young people and women.
According to the National Statistics Agency, the unemployed rate of Morocco is 12.8%, in which you reach unemployment 35.8% and 19% between graduates.
The death of several women in a public hospital in Agadir, a large city in the Central Coast, Morocco, has promoted public resentment.
Who is behind the protest?
Protests were operated by Morocco’s young voice and Jenz 212, which laxly formed an anonymous youth network, who excluded the call. The group used platforms, including tickets, Instagram and gaming applications discords, to call for protests.
This cited the discovery as “a fight against health, education and corruption”, while accepting its “love for the motherland”.
Edited by: ZAC Crellin