{"id":8819,"date":"2020-03-02T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:47:22","slug":"moroccan-authorities-continue-to-ban-amazigh-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/moroccan-authorities-continue-to-ban-amazigh-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan Authorities Continue to Ban Amazigh Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Casablanca – The Moroccan Interior Ministry has once again turned down a request of an Amazigh couple from Meknes by denying them the right to name their newborn daughter with an Amazigh name \u201cSilya” who was born on February 18th, 2020.<\/p>\n
Although the new Moroccan\u00a0constitutional carry\u00a0law giving Amazigh parents\u00a0the absolute right to name their children Amazigh names, Amazigh people are\u00a0still facing intimidation\u00a0and difficulty at the birth registration office when they decide using Amazigh names.<\/p>\n
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Ahmed Arrehmouch, Amazigh rights activist, has sent an urgent letter to the government of Morocco to denounce the act and urged them for an immediate intervention to lift the ban.<\/p>\n
In the same letter, Mr.Arrehmouch has added that the number of bans on Amazigh names has reached a number of 55 cases since 2011, all under the ruling of the Moroccan Islamist party ‘pjd’.<\/p>\n
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Casablanca – The Moroccan Interior Ministry has once again turned down a request of an Amazigh couple from Meknes by denying them the right to name their newborn daughter with an Amazigh name \u201cSilya” who was born on February 18th, 2020. Although the new Moroccan\u00a0constitutional carry\u00a0law giving Amazigh parents\u00a0the absolute right to name their children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tamazgha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819"}],"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=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8824,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions\/8824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazighworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}