Morocco expels journalists

Posted by Dana Goldstein on June 17, 2004 at 10:43 AM

Al Jazeera reports that Norwegian journalists Tor Dommersnes and Fredrik Refvem have been expelled from Morocco, perhaps because of their plans to meet with representatives from Western Sahara, a nation under Moroccan occupation since 1975. Dommersnes and Refvem work for the daily newspaper Stavanger Aftenbladet, and were in possession of Moroccan press passes at the time authorities told them they had violated the law. The pair's editor, Tom Hetland, and the Norwegian ambassador to Morocco, Arne Aasheim, plan to protest the expulsion.

Source: Al Jazeera