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Moroccan opposition figure and former minister Mohamed Ziane has been sentenced to five years in prison while serving a three-year term in another case, his lawyer said on Saturday. The former Rabat bar association president was convicted on charges of “embezzlement and squandering of public funds”, the lawyer Ali Reda Ziane, who is also his son, told AFP. The charges relate to funds the Moroccan Liberal Party (PML) – of which Mohamed Ziane was founder and chief – received in a 2015 electoral campaign. “This is a form of life sentence for an 81-year-old man while legally nothing has been prove…

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