Renowned Moroccan feminist Ibtissame Betty Lachgar is languishing behind bars under accusations of blasphemy, having been arrested in August after posting a photo on social media of a T-shirt she wore to a 2023 UK feminist conference.
The T-shirt’s slogan, which read ‘Allah is a lesbian’, upset authorities in her home country, where LGBT rights exist in a grey area – homophobia is rife and homosexuality is illegal, but the law is not always enforced. Soon after the photo went online, the far-right Islamist Moroccan ‘Moorish movement’ launched a campaign of cyberharassment against Lachgar, issuing rape and death threats and tagging Morocco’s security services.
