The Moroccan judiciary considers calling someone a “donkey” on social media a crime and sentences the perpetrator to a fine of 10,000 dirhams.

In a remarkable ruling regarding the boundaries between insult and defamation in the digital space, the Court of First Instance in Kenitra recently ruled to convict an accused on the basis of posts he published on the social networking site Facebook that included offensive phrases against the president of a football team, considering that the words used fall within the category of insult and not defamation.