Ex-Moroccan Minister of Human Rights and lawyer Mohamed Ziane is accused of not having returned money from an election campaign.

The defendant has been serving a prison sentence of three years for eleven details since November 2022. He is facing a new trial for embezzlement. Ziane was transferred last Friday from Arjat I prison (on the outskirts of Rabat) to the Rabat Court of Appeal to attend a trial session. According to his lawyer, the latter is accused of not having returned 1 million dirhams (about 100,000 euros) of the money that had been granted to him as a subsidy for his party, the Moroccan Liberal Party, for an electoral campaign, following a complaint by asked by another lawyer and member of the political party, Ishaq