Moroccan Court Overturns Landmark Marital Rape Conviction

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Moroccan policemen stand guard outside the tribunal of Rabat on April 13, 2023. © 2023 Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images On October 10, the Tangiers Court of Cassation overturned the 2019 conviction of a man for raping his wife, which had been hailed as Morocco’s first ruling to explicitly criminalize marital rape. By referring the case back to the Tangiers Appeals Court, which had sentenced the man to two years imprisonment and ordered him to pay a fine and compensation to the victim, the Cassation Court has effectively annulled a critical legal precedent…

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