Scores of people were arrested Sunday in Morocco during a second consecutive day of scattered protests called by a group seeking educational and public health reforms, according to a local rights group and AFP journalists.

In Rabat, security forces prevented groups of young people from gathering in several places in the city centre, where dozens were detained.

The protests, which also saw dozens of arrests on Saturday, were initiated by a collective known as “GenZ 212”, whose founders remain unknown.

Hakim Sikouk, president of the Rabat branch of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), reported “more than 100 arrests in Rabat and dozens of others in Casablanca, Marrakesh, Agadir and Souk Sebt”.

Sikouk also said that more than 70 people arrested the day before in Rabat had bee

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