Moroccan sentenced for imitating prince on Facebook
I usually don’t reprint other articles here, but this one is simply too funny/weird to go unnoticed:
A Moroccan court sentenced a computer engineer to three years in prison late on Friday for setting up a Facebook account in the name of King Mohammed’s brother.
Despite an appeal to Prince Moulay Rachid for clemency, the court found 26-year-old Fouad Mortada guilty of falsifying data and imitating the prince without his consent. It also fined him $1,300 (10,000 dirhams), Mortada’s lawyer Ali Ammar said.
“The importance of the personality at the heart of this affair clearly influenced how the case was handled,” Ammar said.
Mortada’s brother Ilyas said the family would appeal. Fouad Mortada said he set up the account on the social-networking site in mid-January out of admiration for the 37-year-old prince, who is second in line to the throne.
Read full article here.
Okay, some people are obviously taking Facebook way too seriously.
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Esra’a,
It is not safe to make fun of the authorities in East. We have the same problem in Iran as well. Here in Iran the authorities are clerics as well, that makes it much more dangerous to disrespect a personality in the media in any way.
Apparently it wasn’t meant to be satirical, he created the profile out of “admiration” for the prince, according to the article.
Either way, princes/royals are all human and should be laughed at just as much as the next man, especially since a lot of them are retarded. I think it’s disgusting that people get arrested for these kinds of silly things. A deletion of the profile and a “warning” from the Facebook staff against such activities (which are against their policies anyways) would’ve been enough. There’s no need for such an absurd overreaction!
haha..
Well they are laughed at among people. I remember once I was in Syria and in school I had a notebook with Hafiz alAsad’s picture on it, I drew a pair of very black mustaches for the picture and a pair of glasses as well, the teacher was horrified…. she said this could cost me so dearly… I was scared too…
What a bizarre news story!
Haha so true. They are obsessed with themselves.
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He did it outta admiration n he gets beaten up?
They did get the profile removed… whts the big deal? cant they understand admiring ‘virtually’??
Never been there long enuf to notice this but do they also censor the faces of ppl in adverts?? [doubt it though]. There is only one poster of the Prince here on a bridge I occasionally use, so I’m not overloaded..
but Gandhi n MJ?? LOL
Oh we LOVE doing it to ALL photos in the Pakistani books.. never even think abt the consequences..
Esra’a,
I read some where that at the time of Stalin, when his name was read aloud in a convention or meeting, then people should have stood and applauded for a very long persiod of time. They had to clap very enthusiastically, and people were very much worried that they would stop applauding, no one wanted to be the fist person to stop. It was very dangerous. I mean the applaud should have suddenly stopped with out any one seeming to be the fist person to stop clapping.
I guess it is not the case now with Putin. Time brings about change, but does the change out live us? we never know….
There’s now a Facebook group protesting this. Would be interesting to see how this stuff develops.
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