Weeks after violent clashes erupted between GenZ protesters and security forces in Morocco as the youth demonstrated for better education and health care in the country, the country's public prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday that nearly 2,400 people now face possible prosecution.

Over 1,400 were already in detention, Hassan Farhan, a judge and senior judicial official at the public prosecutor's office, said in a press conference and of the 2,480 defendants, about a fifth were charged with “rebellion as part of a group.”

As many as 411 people, including 76 minors, have been convicted of the said crimes, the prosecutor's office added, and more than 60 persons have been sentenced to jail terms of up to 15 years. The charges mainly include vandalism, looting, or arson.

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