Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Condemn Morocco Handling of Gen Z Protests 2025

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Condemn Morocco Handling of Gen Z Protests 2025

International leftist and human rights organizations, in a joint statement issued by the International People's Assembly (IPA) and several bodies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, strongly condemned what they described as the "escalating repression against young protesters in Morocco," calling for the immediate release of all political prisoners and an end to what they termed the "systematic repression of civil liberties." The statement, published on October 7, 2025, on the IPA website under the title "Release the Political Prisoners and End the Repression Immediately," came in the context of a wave of widespread protests that swept through several Moroccan cities in recent weeks, led by the Generation Z movement. These protests raised slogans denouncing the deterioration of the health and education sectors, the rising cost of living, and what they considered "corruption and a lack of social justice." The document indicated that th…