{"id":2911,"date":"2016-07-01T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amazighworldnews.com\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:10:17","slug":"morocco-continues-to-ban-amazigh-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/morocco-continues-to-ban-amazigh-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Continues to Ban Amazigh Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Casablanca |<\/strong> The Moroccan Interior Ministry has once again turned down\u00a0a request of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p5Xjvb-KX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazigh<\/a> couple from Meknes\u00a0by denying them the right to name their newborn daughter an Amazigh names \u201cYelli&#8221; &#8220;My Daughter&#8221; who was born on June 15th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Although the new Moroccan\u00a0constitutional carry\u00a0law giving Amazigh parents\u00a0the absolute right to name their children <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazighnetwork.com\/amazigh-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazigh names<\/a>, Amazigh people are\u00a0still facing intimidation\u00a0and difficulty at the birth registration office when they decide using Amazigh names.<\/p>\n<p>[ads1]<\/p>\n<p>The father Jadou Driss have vowed to keep the name, \u201cWe have named our daughter &#8220;Yelli&#8221;. Whether they will give identity card or not, she will remain &#8220;Yelli&#8221;. We will never change her name\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, Amazigh language was criminalized, and those who used Amazigh names were immediately denied. But due to the increasingly Amazigh protest movement, the Moroccan state could not afford to continue criminalizing Amazigh language, and gradually language rights were slowly granted in principle but never in practice.<\/p>\n<p>[ads1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casablanca | The Moroccan Interior Ministry has once again turned down\u00a0a request of an\u00a0Amazigh couple from Meknes\u00a0by denying them the right to name their newborn daughter an Amazigh names \u201cYelli&#8221; &#8220;My Daughter&#8221; who was born on June 15th, 2016. Although the new Moroccan\u00a0constitutional carry\u00a0law giving Amazigh parents\u00a0the absolute right to name their children Amazigh names, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[77,440,244,30,94,384,73,439,118,66,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-2911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tamazgha","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"tag-amazigh","10":"tag-amazigh-alphabet","11":"tag-amazigh-flag","12":"tag-amazigh-language","13":"tag-amazigh-music","14":"tag-amazigh-names","15":"tag-amazigh-symbol","16":"tag-amazigh-tattoo","17":"tag-morocco","18":"tag-tamazgha","19":"tag-tifinagh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8822,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/8822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}