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  • NameAhmed Ettanji
  • RoleJournalist and president of Équipe Média, a media organization documenting human rights violations in occupied Western Sahara
  • CountryMorocco
  • Arrested9 Oct 2024
  • StatusAt liberty
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Ahmed Ettanji is a Sahrawi journalist who co-founded Équipe Média in 2009 and is its president, to break Morocco's information blockade. He was expelled from Cape Bojador in October 2024 during a family visit, and threatened with arrest. In 2020 he was kept under house arrest for 48 hours on his wedding day.