A Moroccan convert from Islam to Christianity is appealing against the two-and-a-half year prison sentence handed down to him in September for evangelising and ‘shaking the faith of a Muslim’.
Mohamed El Baladi was also fined 5,000 dirham (£400). He was arrested on August 28 following a raid on his home in which Christian literature was seized; government agents had tracked his movements for some time.
Propagating Christianity is banned in Morocco, but the punishment for this is three to six months imprisonment and a fine of around 200-500 dirham, substantially lower than Mohamed’s penalty.
