- PARIS: Human Rights Watch says suspects detained under Morocco’s counterterrorism laws allegedly suffer regular abuse.
- In a report released Monday, the rights group quotes detainees as saying they were tortured or ill-treated in prison.
It says the suspects are often detained without explanation by plainclothes agents, who then whisk them to secret detention places where they are held without access to a lawyer for longer than the legal limit.
There was no immediate response from authorities in Morocco.
Morocco adopted its counterterrorism laws days after deadly 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca.

