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Panel Details Deaths, Disappearances

THE WORLD | IN BRIEF / MOROCCO

December 17, 2005|From Times Wire Reports

A truth commission set up by Morocco's King Mohammed VI to investigate human rights abuses during his father's 38-year rule found that nearly 600 people had disappeared and 500 had been killed during street riots or while in police custody, the state news agency reported.

The panel -- the first of its kind in the Arab world -- called for judicial and security reform, constitutional guarantees of human rights, presumption of innocence and fair, open trials.


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