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Rabat – Morocco’s Justice Minister, Abdellatif Ouhbi, welcomed on Monday, R.M, a Moroccan child born in Iraq to an incarcerated mother.
The Ministerial Delegation for Human Rights helped repatriate the Moroccan child to her homeland. She had been residing with her incarcerated mother in one of Iraq’s prisons.
According to an official source from the Ministry of Justice, R.M was born in an Iraqi prison seven years ago. The child is fatherless because her father lost his life during the Iraq war.
Meanwhile, her mother found herself behind bars, initially sentenced to death but later having her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
R.M’s parents had migrated from Morocco to Iraq during the years when “fighters were transitioning to Iraq and Syria via Turkey.” The migration, driven by complex geopolitical factors, ultimately led to the child’s birth and upbringing in an Iraqi prison.
R.M will now be put under the custody of a relative of her mother’s. The relative, accompanied by social workers, facilitated R.M’s journey from Iraq back to Morocco.
The Ministerial Delegation for Human Rights, which was responsible for the repatriation, expressed its profound gratitude to the Iraqi authorities for their cooperation and efforts in making this humanitarian initiative possible.
The initiative was executed in response to the demand from R.M.’s family, with the consent of her mother. The primary aim is to provide R.M with an opportunity to grow up in a healthy and nurturing environment.
The Moroccan authorities have taken comprehensive measures to ensure R.M.’s well-being, including psychological, social, and educational support, as well as a commitment to integrating her into her new environment.
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