Mohamed Salah Tamek, the Delegate-General for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR), stated on Wednesday that the DGAPR has established a new strategic plan for 2022-2026 in order to foster a new dynamic inside this institution and reach higher levels of efficiency.

According to Tamek, during a presentation of the DGAPR’s draft budget for 2022 before the House Committee on Justice, Legislation, and Human Rights, the DGAPR’s strategic plan has been reviewed to match with the new government program in terms of general guidelines and the timetable set for their implementation.

To ensure the completion of previously initiated projects, they have been merged into the new strategic plan, making it an inclusive strategy and an extension of the previous one, said the Delegate-General, adding that important and new initiatives have also been integrated.

The strategy is founded on five fundamental principles: humanizing prison conditions, preparing inmates for reintegration, ensuring security and safety in prison, developing administrative institutional capacity, and integrating the gender approach and the environmental dimension into prison management.

Tamek believes that the new strategic plan is especially essential because it includes a number of new key initiatives that, if implemented, would result in substantial improvements that would actually promote the prison system.

The DGAPR intends to continue implementing programs that have proven to be effective, both in terms of humanizing prison conditions and incorporating a human rights approach into prison management, as well as in terms of increasing inmates’ chances of reintegration, ensuring security and discipline in penal institutions, modernizing administration, and strengthening governance.

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While ten American senators wrote to the State Department regarding the Sahara conflict, the Director General of the Moroccan Penitentiary Administration, Mohamed Salah Tamek, supplied various facts in a response letter, particularly on the Gdim Izik captives.

Tamek reminded in a letter to the American Secretary of State in response to the departure of the American senators that the detainees of Gdim Izik are “prosecuted for having slain elements of the police force rather than for reasons relating to any nonviolent movement.”.

“Would the ten signatories have permitted dissidents who invaded and ransacked the Capitol and killed some police officers in order to be deemed peaceful protesters?” Tamek wonders in this letter, labeling the letter signed by ten American senators as “misplaced, false, and entirely biased.”

The Director General of the Penitentiary Administration has also replied to the Moroccan prison situation, providing details on “acceptable” incarceration circumstances. He also emphasized the advancements made in improving incarceration conditions and reinforcing respect for detainees’ rights.

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In regards to the controversy sparked by the statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative on El Rissouni’s trial, a group of jurists and interested parties defended the Moroccan judiciary’s position on the grounds that the statements did not include listening to the victims, and thus the judgement was viewed from one perspective to another.
In the same context, as Al Tamek, the Representative-General of the General Prison Office, he wrote to represent his dissatisfaction with these statements in a letter signed as a Moroccan citizen and former diplomat.
As Al Tamek said “As a former Moroccan citizen and diplomat, I cannot fail to express my great displeasure and shock at the insulting statement made by the spokesman of the United States Department of State concerning Moroccan justice and freedom of expression, and at the fact that this statement has touched upon my dignity and the dignity of all Moroccans.”
Adding, “What gives you the right to dare poke your nose into a purely Moroccan criminal case involving a Moroccan citizen whose name has been bothered to spell out, and who goes so far as to give sermons and lessons to Moroccans? ” How can you be tempted to judge what is identical or contradictory to the Moroccan Constitution?”
“How dare you distinguish between Moroccans and detract from the value of others, as in the case of the victims, Adam and Hafsa?” he continued. Are sexually abused Americans, male or female, superior and more human than their Moroccan counterparts? Why is there so much focus on these long-running cases in the courts and in the media? How many articles have these journalists written and investigated? “
What is the secret of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ concern not to bring up what is currently going on in Algeria or what has recently happened in South Africa?” Al Tamek added, “Why is there so much focus on Morocco at the moment?” Isn’t this the obvious and unjustified bias of a small group of Islamic extremists and leftists whose sole purpose is to cause confusion and uproar at the expense of the vast majority of people?
Finally, Al Tamek concluded that, “In the light of these outstanding questions, I would like to express my deep concern about the position taken by the spokesman of the United States Department of State and sincerely hope that his statement will be a nascent note, otherwise his risk does not bode well for the future of American-Moroccan relationships”.

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