/ 11 January 2001

EDITOR GOES HUNGRY

THE editor of two banned Moroccan magazines said he would go on an indefinite hunger strike following a court’s decision to ignore his request to launch new publications. The Casablanca-based weekly newspaper Le Journal and its Arabic sister publication Assahifa, both published abroad, were banned by the government last month after being accused of destabilising the North African country. Government officials were not immediately available for comment on Abubakr Jamais decision. – Reuters