Organizers cry foul as Moroccan government postpones film fest focusing on human rights
17th Nov 2006, 07:42 GMT
An international film festival on human rights, which was due to open here on Wednesday, has been postponed by the government until March 2007 in a move organizers decried as censorship. "We consider it to be a disguised ban" of the one-week film festival, Omar Louzi said.
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