{"id":288785,"date":"2025-01-11T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=288785"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T08:10:43","slug":"moroccan-king-pardons-1304-prisoners-on-eve-of-independence-manifesto-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=288785","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan king pardons 1,304 prisoners on eve of Independence Manifesto Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RABAT, Jan 11 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Moroccan King Mohammed VI has granted amnesty to 1,304 prisoners on the eve of Independence Manifesto Day, a major national holiday in Morocco, the Moroccan Ministry of Justice announced in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pardon applies to 948 inmates, whose prison sentences have been reduced, while 356 others have had their sentences or fines annulled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Independence Manifesto Day, celebrated annually on Jan. 11, marks the anniversary of the publication of the 1944 Independence Manifesto, a landmark political document in which Moroccan nationalists called for the country&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Morocco, royal pardons are traditionally granted during major national commemorations or religious festivals.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RABAT, Jan 11 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Moroccan King Mohammed VI has granted amnesty to 1,304 prisoners on the eve of Independence Manifesto Day, a major national holiday in Morocco, the Moroccan Ministry of Justice announced in a statement on Friday. The pardon applies to 948 inmates, whose prison sentences have been reduced, while 356 others have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288786,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288785\/revisions\/288786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}