1186 Whoever knowingly and by any means, including computer systems, proceeds to intercept, record, disseminate or distribute words or information emitted in a private or confidential setting, without the consent of their authors, is punishable by imprisonment from six months to three years and a fine of 2.000 to 20.000 dirhams.…
Penal Code
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1 Trafficking in human beings means the act of recruiting a person, inducing them, transporting them, transferring them, harbouring them, receiving them, or the act of acting as an intermediary for this purpose, by the threat of recourse to force, recourse to force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception or abuse…
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Whoever, by food, beverages, medicines, manoeuvres, violence or by any other means, has procured or attempted to procure the abortion of a pregnant woman or a woman supposed to be pregnant, whether she consented thereto or not, is punished with imprisonment from one to five years and with a fine of 200189 to 500 dirhams. If death has resulted therefrom, the penalty is reclusion from ten to twenty years. 189 - Ibid. - -
If it is established that the offender habitually engaged in the acts referred to in the preceding article, the prison sentence is doubled in the case provided for in the first paragraph, and the reclusion sentence is increased from twenty to thirty years in the case provided for in paragraph 2. In the case where, by virtue of t…
Physicians, surgeons, health officers, dentists, midwives, moualidat, pharmacists, as well as students of medicine or dental art, students or employees in pharmacy, herbalists, bandagists, dealers in surgical instruments, nurses, masseurs, healers and qablat, who have indicated, encouraged or practised the means of procuring abo…
Whoever contravenes the prohibition to practise his profession pronounced by virtue of the last paragraph of the preceding article is punished with imprisonment of at least six months and at most two years and with a fine of 500 to 5.000 dirhams or only one of these two penalties.
Abortion is not punished when it constitutes a necessary measure to safeguard the mother's health and it is openly 190 - Article amended by Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 181-66 of 22 Rebia I 1387 (1 July 1967) constituting a law amending Article 453 of the Penal Code, supplementing Article 455 of the same Code and repealing the…
The woman who intentionally procured her own abortion or attempted to do so, or who consented to use means indicated or administered to her for that purpose, is punished with imprisonment from six months to two years and with a fine of 200191 to 500 dirhams.
Whoever: either by speeches delivered in public places or meetings; or by the sale, offering for sale, or offering, even non-public, or by the exhibition, display or distribution on the public thoroughfare or in public places, or by home distribution, delivery under wrapper or in a closed or open envelope, to the postal service,…
Any conviction for one of the offences provided for in this section entails, as of right, the prohibition to exercise any function and to fill any employment, in any capacity whatsoever, in clinics or maternity homes and all public or private establishments habitually receiving, for consideration or free of charge, and in any nu…
In the event of a conviction pronounced by a foreign court and having become final, for an offence constituting, under Moroccan law, one of the offences specified in this section, the correctional court of the domicile of the convicted person declares, on the application of the public prosecutor, the interested party duly summoned in the council chamber, that there is occasion to apply the prohibition provided for in the preceding article.
Whoever contravenes the prohibition imposed on him pursuant to Articles 456 or 457 is punished with imprisonment from six months to two years and with a fine of 200194 to 1.000 dirhams or only one of these two penalties. 194 - cf. supra note corresponding to Article 111. - - SECTION II OF THE EXPOSURE AND ABANDONMENT OF CHILDREN OR INCAPACITATED PERSONS (Articles 459 to 467)
Whoever exposes or abandons in a solitary place a child under fifteen years of age or an incapable person, unable to protect himself by reason of his physical or mental condition, is, for that fact alone, punished by imprisonment of one to three years195. If the exposure or abandonment resulted in illness or incapacity of more t…
If the guilty parties are the ascendants or any other persons having authority over the child or incapable person, or having custody thereof, the penalty: Is imprisonment of two to five years in the cases provided for in the first paragraph of the preceding article; -Is increased to double that prescribed by paragraph 2 of that…
Whoever exposes or abandons in a non-solitary place a child under fifteen years of age or an incapable person unable to protect himself by reason of his physical or mental condition, is, for that fact alone, punished by imprisonment of three months to one year196. If the exposure or abandonment resulted in illness or incapacity…
If the guilty parties are the ascendants or any other persons having authority over the child or incapable person or having custody thereof, the penalty: Is imprisonment of six months to two years in the case provided for in the first paragraph of the preceding article; Is imprisonment of one to three years in the case provided…
If death was caused with the intention of provoking it, the offender is punished, according to the case, by the penalties provided for in Articles 392 to 397.
In the case where, by virtue of Articles 459 to 462, only a misdemeanour penalty is incurred, the offender may, in addition, be sentenced to for five years 196 - First paragraph amended by Article 1 of Law No. 24-03 amending and supplementing the Penal Code, aforementioned. - - at least and ten years at most of disqualification from one or more of the rights mentioned in Article 40 of this Code.
Whoever takes to a charitable establishment a child under seven years of age completed who had been entrusted to him to take care of the child or for any other cause is punished by imprisonment of one to six months and a fine of 200197 to 2.000 dirhams or by only one of these two penalties. However, no penalty is incurred if the…
Is punished by imprisonment of one to six months and a fine of 200198 to 5.000 dirhams whoever, with a view to profit: 1° Incites the parents or one of them to abandon their child born or to be born; 2° Provides or attempts to provide his mediation in having a child born or to be born taken in or adopted.
1200 Is punished by imprisonment of two to ten years and a fine of five thousand to two million dirhams any person who sells or acquires a child under eighteen years of age. The sale of children means any act or any transaction involving the transfer of a child from one or more persons to one or more other persons in exchange fo…
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In the cases where the declaration of birth is compulsory, are punished by imprisonment of one to two months and a fine of 120202 to 200 dirhams if they have not proceeded therewith within the period prescribed by law: the father or, in his absence, the physicians, surgeons, health officers, midwives, moualidat, qablat or other…
Whoever, having found a newborn child, does not declare it either to the civil status officer or to the local authority is punished by imprisonment of one to two months and a fine of 120204 to 200 dirhams or by only one of these two penalties. The full brother has priority over the consanguine brother, and the latter over the ut…
Those who knowingly, in conditions of a nature to render his identification impossible, move a child, conceal him, cause him to disappear, or substitute another child for him, or present him materially as born of a woman who has not given birth, shall be punished by imprisonment of two to five years. If it is not established tha…
Whoever, by violence, threats or fraud, abducts or causes the abduction of a minor of eighteen years, or leads him away, entices him away or moves him, or causes him to be led away, enticed away or moved from the places where he was placed by those under whose authority or direction he was subject or entrusted, is punished by reclusion of five to ten years.
If the minor thus abducted or enticed away is under twelve years of age, the penalty is reclusion of ten to twenty years. However, if the minor is found alive before the judgment of conviction has been rendered, the penalty is reclusion of five to ten years. 205 - Article supplemented by Article 2 of Law No. 24-03 amending and supplementing the Penal Code, referred to above. - -
If the offender has himself paid or intended to have himself paid a ransom by the persons under whose authority or supervision the minor was placed, the penalty, whatever the age of the minor, is perpetual reclusion. However, if the minor is found alive before the judgment of conviction has been rendered, the penalty is reclusion of ten to twenty years.
In the cases provided for in Articles 471 to 473, the abduction is punished by death if it was followed by the death of the minor.
Anyone who, without violence, threats or fraud, abducts or entices away, or attempts to abduct or entice away, a minor under eighteen years207, shall be punished by imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 200208 to 500 dirhams.