Campaign of Solidarity with Moroccan Writer Mohamed Saïd Raïhani
- Mohamed Said Raihani
- Closed on
- Target:
- Moroccan Minister of National Education and higher Studies
- Region:
- Morocco
This petition is now closed.
After the notorious suicide bomb attacks in Casablanca on Friday May 16th 2003, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani published a manifesto entitled "From the Culture of Life to the Culture of Death" which cost him dearly as Moroccan authorities chose to punish him in his own office to avoid stirring further doubts in human-right circles.
From the following year, 2004, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani started a new tradition in Moroccan culture by publishing yearly the "October Manifestoes" which are all gathered in a book released at summer 2009 as "History of Manipulating Professional Contests in Morocco".
In an open letter From Mohamed Saïd Raïhani to the Moroccan Minister of National and Higher Education, Professional Training and Scientific Research, Rabat / Morocco, on February 12th 2010, he wrote:
“Regarding professional contests, I published thereon, as your Excellency knows, a whole book entitled "History of Manipulating Professional Contests in Morocco” released in 2009. However, I am afraid that this very book should be at the source of this brand-new kind of sanctions that has been projected on me for all these seven years and that does not seem to resemble any of the ordinary sanctions that other writers throughout History have suffered either by having their books seized or confiscated or even burnt. The brand-new kind of sanctions which has been focused on me for all these years attempts cleverly to “circumvent” the real problem occurring originally in the “cultural” sphere away to the “professional” field, for fear of making a hero out of the writer.
This newly-coined sanction makes use of all the administrative tools available for taming and repressive goals but too far from the context and the circumstances that are at the origin of the real crisis triggered by my signing and circulating "October’s Yearly Manifestoes" which extended over five years, from 2004 to 2009, before been gathered in the above-mentioned book, "History of Manipulating Professional Contests in Morocco”. This new punitive invention aims, unfairly and unscrupulously, at barring the way before my professional career in order to dwarf me professionally, administratively and financially”.
The Campaign of Solidarity with Moroccan Writer Mohamed Saïd Raïhani petition to Moroccan Minister of National Education and higher Studies was written by Mohamed Said Raihani and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.