Hunger-striking activist admitted to hospital

The hunger-striking leader of a protest movement that shook Morocco’s north is being treated in hospital after collapsing in a Casablanca court. Nasser Zefzafi was attending a hearing at a court of appeal with 53 co-defendants when he fainted. A report on the News24 site notes that Zefzafi became a leading figure in Al-Hirak al-Shaabi, or the ‘Popular Movement’ that broke out in late 2016. It saw protesters demanding an end to graft in Morocco's neglected northern Rif region. Zefzafi was arrested in May after allegedly interrupting a preacher at a mosque to call for further protests. He and 30 other detainees launched a hunger strike on the Wednesday before last.