Secret marriage, libel and slander: Morocco issues arrest warrant against Al-Jazeera TV host
Wednesday 23/January/2019 - 01:12 PM
Mahmoud Mohammadi
A new incident was added to the series of "immoral crimes"
perpetrated by the leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood (founded by
Hassan al-Banna in Egypt in 1928). The Moroccan Public Prosecution unveiled its
details, releasing an arrest warrant against Al-Jazeera TV host Ahmed Mansour
of Egyptian origin on charges of slander, defamation and the failure to
implement a temporary marriage contract with a Moroccan woman named K.V.
Moroccan media sources explained that the reason for the memo was that Mansour did not register a marriage contract with a Moroccan woman who was associated with him in the summer of 2012 under a customary contract that is not recognized by Moroccan law, in addition to his failure to attend several hearings regarding the lawsuit against him.
Details of the case of the marriage of Mansour with the Moroccan woman date back to 2012, when he attended the Seventh National Congress of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey.
He proposed to her on the sidelines of the conference and asked her to have a secret marriage. They spent the honeymoon together in Paris and Istanbul before discovering that she was a victim of deceit. She was not his first marriage.
Detection of circumstances
The Moroccan press has taken it upon itself to reveal the circumstances of the incident, since Ms. KF stated in 2015 that she met with Mansour during her participation in a conference of the Justice and Development Party in the summer of 2012 as a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations.
After the circulation of the news, Mansour published a post on his account on the social networking site Facebook, addressing the Moroccans. He said: "You are nothing but a group of insects and parasites living in trash.”
The journalist who works for al-Jazeera (a Qatari satellite channel and one of the media branches of the Muslim Brotherhood), faced a wave of criticism from Arab activists in general, and Moroccans in particular, after the abuses he made against the Moroccan people.
He then was forced to withdraw his tweet and publish an apology. “I apologize to all those who misread what I wrote, my friends, my loved ones, my readers and viewers of my programs, and I admit that I wrote it in a moment of anger and it was an angry reaction to what was issued," he said
