Magistrates' Club sit-in this Friday in Kénitra: Desperately seeking protection

Magistrates are angry. The Magistrates' Club is organising, this Friday 17 May at 3 pm, a sit-in in front of the Court of Appeal of Kénitra. It is protesting against the repetitive violence and harassment that judges undergo in the full exercise of their function. "The State does not assume its responsibilities and fails in its obligations to protect us," indicates a statement from the Club. Initiated by the regional office of the Magistrates' Club of Kénitra, this sit-in denounces the State's failure in its duty to guarantee the protection of judges against the attacks and threats of which magistrates are increasingly the target. "It is a right that the State must guarantee us in accordance with Article 20 of the statute of magistrates, and in application of all international conventions and declarations, notably the United Nations principles relating to the independence of the judicia…