18 Feb
Spoof Facebook prince lands man in prison
It’s not hard to find spoof celebrity profiles in Facebook, but in Morocco the act of impersonating a member of the royal family is taken very seriously indeed, as one unlucky young Moroccan man has recently discovered.
Fouad Mortada, a 26-year-old IT engineer from Casablanca was arrested at the beginning of the month, taken to a detention centre and allegedly tortured.
His crime? Mortada set up a Facebook account in the name of Prince Moulay Rachid, brother to King Mohamed VI of Morocco.
Security forces in Morocco who arrested Mortada were initially concerned that Mortada could have harmful intentions towards the prince, Reuters reported.
tech.co.uk