We, activists and friends of Attac, from all around the world, learn with dismay the final sentence of one year of prison according to the ruling of the Moroccan High Court. Our comrade Mohamed Yousfi, secretary of the Attac section of Beni Mellal, and two more of his colleagues, Abdelkbir Rabaaoui and Brahim Ahnsal, were sentenced for having exercised their duty of solidarity with the activists arrested after the demonstrations on the 1^st of May 2007. These activists are jailed in the prisons of Ksar el Kebir and Agadir from one to up to four years for the slogans they shouted during the demonstrations on the 1^st of May. A new trial will take place in the coming weeks against seven other activists including Mohamed Bougrine, aged 72, currently incarcerated after the Supreme Court’s decision in favour of a revision of their trial.

We, the undersigned, feel outraged by these severe sentences and call for the outright release of our comrade Mohamed Yousfi, Mohamed Bougrine and of all activists convicted after the 1^st of May demonstrations in Ksar el Kebir, Agadir, and Beni Mellal who have only exercised their basic civic right to make their opinions and social demands peacefully public.