Article 490
Panel court act of Morocco
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Article 490 of the Moroccan Penal Code (Arabic: الفصل 490 من القانون الجنائي المغربي[1]) criminalizes extramarital sexual relations in Morocco.[2][3]
Text
The text of the article reads as follows:
الفصل 490:كل علاقة جنسية بين رجل وامرأة لا تربط بينهما علاقة الزوجية تكون جريمة الفساد يعاقب عليها بالحبس من شهر واحد إلى سنة.[4]
Article 490: Every sexual relation between a man and a woman not bound by wedlock is a crime of corruption punished by imprisonment from a month up to a year.
Reactions
The "moroccan outlaws"" campaign (Arabic: خارجة على القانون, French: Hors-la-loi), with the express goal of ending Article 490, began as a manifesto and petition during the trial of the Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni.[5] The movement was led by the filmmaker Sonia Terrab and the writer and French Francophone affairs minister Leïla Slimani.[5][6][7]