A Moroccan journalist has been sentenced to a year in prison for premarital sex and having an abortion, in a case activists say is part of a crackdown on critical reporters.

Hajar Raissouni was arrested with her fiancé as they left a gynaecologist’s clinic in the capital, Rabat, in August.

According to BBC News, the 28-year-old denied the charges, saying she had sought treatment for internal bleeding.

Ms Raissouni works for an independent newspaper critical of the authorities.

A journalist at the Akhbar Al-Yaoum daily, she denounced the case against her as a “political trial”, saying she had been questioned by police about her family and her writing.

Wearing a black veil covering her head, Ms Raissouni appeared calm on arrival at the courtroom in Rabat. She and her fiancé, a Sudanese national, denied that an abortion had taken place.

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  • I went without sex over a year without complaining and you are here shouting and screaming for not fucking for two months?? hoedah the hoe

  • stop nonsense you girl,you can't go around bragging for not having sex for two month,while me I went without for two & half year ,shape!!!

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