Marrakech – The Court of First Instance in Sefrou convicted rapper Jawad Asradi, known by his stage name Pause Flow, and sentenced him to one year in prison along with a fine of MAD 5,000 ($500). The chamber for cases of flagrante delicto issued the ruling on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 19, following a complaint filed by his ex-wife.
According to converging reports, the court also ordered Asradi to pay MAD 50,000 ($5,000) to his ex-wife as part of the civil claims attached to the case. The same panel acquitted him of the charge of threatening his ex-wife. The court then notified him of his right to appeal within a period of 10 days.
The case dates back to Monday, August 10, when security forces in the city of Imouzzer Kandar arrested the rapper. The arrest came after his ex-wife lodged a complaint accusing him of insults, slander, and defamation. She tied those accusations to the lyrics of his song “Cent Daz,” in which he addressed details of his relationship with her.
The prosecution pursued Asradi on several counts. Those included broadcasting and distributing false allegations and false facts with the aim of harming an individual’s private life and defaming them. He also faced counts of public insults and slander committed against a woman on the basis of her sex, in addition to the threat directed at his ex-wife, from which the court ultimately cleared him.
This is not the rapper’s first conviction. The Court of First Instance in Sefrou had convicted him in late 2025, handing down a three-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of MAD 2,000 ($200) over the lyrics of several of his songs. The ordinary appeals chamber at the Court of Appeal in Fez upheld that ruling on June 18, 2026.
In that earlier case, Asradi was prosecuted while in detention, having been arrested on November 20 of the previous year. He faced charges of “insulting a constituted body” as well as “insulting public officials through statements and expressions considered damaging to their honor, their feelings, and the respect due to them in the exercise of their duties.”
