Morocco opposition file bill to abolish death penalty

A parliamentary opposition group has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty in Morocco, where a moratorium has been in place for 20 years, a member said Thursday. The MP said he was "optimistic" about the bill passing "in view of the current reform movement in Morocco". A parliamentary seminar was held earlier this week initiated by "the network of MPs against the death penalty," a group founded in February and which numbers 210 lawmakers, according to the official MAP news agency. No executions have been carried out in the North African country since a moratorium was declared in 1993, but the death penalty has yet to be abolished.

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