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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Roy Greenslade

YouTube rescues Morocco's muffled press

Newspapers in Morocco have suffered from increasing constraints in the run-up to today's election. But Moroccan citizen journalists have overcome censorship by using the web. One of them, Qannass, has become notorious for posting videos of abusive policemen on YouTube. "He is the archetype of a whole generation of people disappointed by the system, who have chosen activism to denounce the abuse and injustice caused by the system," wrote Ali Amar, for the Journal hebdomadaire. (Via Editors' weblog/AFP)

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