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Hicham Mansouri

Hicham Mansouri

HRD, Journalist & Project Manager
Association Marocaine pour le Journalisme d'Investigation - AMIJ

Hicham Mansouri is a Moroccan human rights defender, journalist, and project manager at the Association Marocaine pour le Journalisme d'Investigation - AMIJ (Moroccan Association for Investigative Journalism). AMIJ works to promote freedom of expression and the right to information, as well as encouraging investigative journalism and providing protection for journalists.

Journalists and media workers critical of the government face harassment and arrest in some instances, and the country's press law includes prison terms for “maliciously” spreading “false information”. There are reports of torture and ill-treatment of human rights defenders in detention and activists held have been incommunicado.