18 September 2009

Threats for breaking Morocco fast

A Moroccan man campaigning to change the law banning eating in public during the Muslim Ramadan fast says he has received 100 death threats this week. Radi Omar denied that his group was anti-Islam. "We are in favour of individual freedom," he told the BBC. Six of his colleagues are in custody after planning to eat in public last Sunday and he demanded their release. [BBC] Read more