Moroccan authorities intensified their crackdown on freedom of expression and peaceful dissent. Journalists, human rights defenders and government critics faced prosecutions, intimidation and digital surveillance, despite royal pardons granted to some prisoners of conscience in previous years. Widespread protests over the economic crisis, inequality and the state of public services were met with excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests and unfair trials. Discriminatory laws continued to undermine the rights of women and LGBTI people, including the criminalization of consensual same-sex sexual relations and restricted access to sexual and reproductive health services including safe abortion. Climate change-related drought undermined the rights to food and an adequate standard of living.
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