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A Muslim woman’s place? In Casablanca, it could be burning rubber on a Harley…

Silhouetted against a backdrop of moving traffic, it’s easy to make out lots of long hair being flicked, shaken and ruffled back into place. None of which would be surprising… but for fact that this group is made up entirely of women, something that has also caught the attention of the crowd of tea drinkers, many of whom are now staring at them with astonishment. “We call ourselves Les Miss Moto Maroc and we’re the first all-female motorcycle club in Morocco,” says Dalila Mosbah, the leader of the group, sitting down at a table. The club also hosts an annual international rally,�

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Amnesty condemns trial of Moroccan women who wore ‘too tight’ dresses

Source: theguardian

Amnesty International has condemned a Moroccan court’s decision to put two women who were wearing dresses on trial for indecent exposure as “part of a pattern of discriminatory laws” in the kingdom. The women, aged 23 and 29, were arrested in the southern city of Agadir in mid-June after walking around a market in outfits deemed to be provocative by passersby. In the police report, the women, both hairdressers, were said to have been wearing clothes that were “too tight”. Liz McKean, the director for women’s human rights at Amnesty International UK, said on Tuesday: “It’s

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Women in Morocco start campaign in defense of short dresses

Source: Pangea Today

Moroccan cyberspace has been flooded with a women’s outcry a few days after two women in the city of Inezgane in the south of the Arab country were charged with breaching the community standard of public modesty for wearing “short dresses.” Security forces took the two women in when they were verbally threatened by one of the merchants at the market where they were shopping. He was denouncing the ladies’ outfits. The incident raised controversy on social media and among women who considered the police behavior as obstructing individual freedoms stipulated in the Moroccan co