TelQuel

TelQuel (French: As it is) (slogan: Morocco as it is), is a French-language Moroccan weekly news magazine.

[2] The magazine has been repeatedly subjected to harassment and pressures from the Moroccan government.

[2] Both Benchemsi and Boukhari were convicted in 2005 on charges of defamation, in what the RSF described as a political trial.

[3] On 1 August 2009, the Moroccan government seized an edition of TelQuel, following its inclusion of an opinion poll conducted jointly with French newspaper Le Monde and looking at the performance of King Mohammed VI over the first ten years of his reign.

Although 91% viewed his performance favourably, the authorities considered this to be an unsuitable topic for coverage and promptly banned publication of the survey, provoking a furious reaction from the press and Web users.

A cover date 20 October 2006