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ENCOD BULLETIN ON DRUG POLICIES IN EUROPE

NR. 53 JULY 2009

BUILDING A MOVEMENT

PRESS RELEASE
26 JUNE 2009
Today, on the UN Day Against Drug Abuse, the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (Encod) , an European NGO platform of organisations working in the drug field, have presented a letter to Moroccan embassies in 14 European countries (the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal) as well as to the embassies of these countries in Marocco, to ask the (...)

Announcing its European Action on Drugs, the European Commission invites European citizens to take "practical and creative initiatives that positively influence drug-related behaviour in European society".

On this International Day Against Drugs we ask your attention for the fate of the prominent Moroccan human rights activist Chakib El Khayari.

Chakib El Khayari has been arrested in Casablanca on 18 February 2009. As chairman of the Human Rights Association of the Rif, he had made critical declarations in the press concerning the level of corruption in the drug control agencies of the Moroccan state. These agencies turn a blind eye to the illicit export of hash from Morocco, and carry out a repressive policy with regards to the farmers who grow cannabis. Both policies undermine the development of the region in various ways.