Observatoire Marocain des Prisons

The Moroccan Observatory of Prisons is an independent non-governmental organization created in 1999 by human rights activists to protect and promote the rights of detainees.
It acts as an observatory of penitentiary conditions in Morocco, as a unit of legal assistant to the detainees and of treatment of the grievances, as a center of research, information, training and advocacy for a more humane prison and to improve the legislative framework in accordance with international standards in this area.

General Objectives

Protection and promotion of the rights of detainees
Reform of the penal and prison legal system that guarantees the protection of human rights and the dignity of detainees