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| Nadia Yassine, March 14,2006. |
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| This article was published at 01:30pm, the exact time when Nadia Yassine was heading for the court. |
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| The Makhzen, always as smart and cultured and democratic and also as delicate as an elephant in a porcelain shop, has found the prefect subterfuge to prevent me from attending the hearing. They managed to make my convocation disappear inside the bureaucratic windings ; it’s a casual thing to happen in common law cases , but in mine it becomes really too obvious a manipulation . They allegedly don’t know my address. |
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| I therefore denied the Makhzen the opportunity to make of my trial a common law case, where convocations get lost or are taken for paper for joints by some illiterates who got lucky finding that job thanks to the ambient corruption. I won’t allow them to imprison me in this purely judicial context. I will attend the hearing because it’s a political trial and because the Moroccan people as well as its liberty depend on this appearance. |
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| We who advocate the advancement in terms of non-violence have decided that we won’t play this dubious judicial game. |
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| Thus, I claim my trial and absolutely cling to it, first in a spirit of respect and love for this people that we take for a herd of sheep, this people to whom they deny the basic rights like that of liberty of opinion and of saying high and loud all that inhibit them and prevent them from finding a spot in the sun of dignity. |
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| I also claim this trial in support for the free and responsible press that found itself muzzled and dragged to law courts. |
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| It’s high time to learn like Umar Ibn-al-khattab suggested, to say at the top of our lungs « NO » to injustice, to humiliation, to arbitrariness and arbitration, and all other archaisms committed in the name of a guiltless Islam. |
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| I claim this trial so that we finally understand what this country is made of, what this governance is, what this absurdity is, what this utter chaos that surrounds us means. |
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| I claim this trial to unmask this false State of law. |
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| I claim this trial because we absolutely need to establish an authentic State of law even if it means to pay from our freedom, our time and even our lives if that’s what it takes. |
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| I claim this trial so that our children live free, live strong, live protected from all drifts, for them to simply …live. |
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| I claim this trial out of love for my children, my grand children and the children of our people even if it means going to prison. |
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| I claim this trial out and mostly out of love for God and his messenger whom we betrayed and spattered by saying that autocracy is natural to Islam. |
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| My trial is an opportunity to explain to history why we don’t have the right to think, react and reconstruct. |
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| Once again I will go , God willing, with my symbolic gag on my mouth, but this time I won’t be alone , hundreds even thousands of gags will highlight mine. |
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| The last time, I took the gag off my mouth in court because I still had a glimpse of hope in a fair independent and free judge. How do you expect me to recover this confidence in a court that doesn’t respect not our rights nor rights in general. |
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| I claim my trial but I will not take my gag off in court for it has to merit that I do it. |
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