A Moroccan actor who starred in a controversial film about sex workers says she has fled the North African nation for France after being savagely beaten.
Loubna Abidar, who played a prostitute in the drama Much Loved, posted photographs and a video on Facebook in which she appeared bruised and bleeding. She said she had been attacked by unknown knife-wielding assailants in Casablanca on Thursday night and claimed no police station or hospital would take her in.
Loubna Abidar, who played a prostitute in the drama Much Loved, posted photographs and a video on Facebook in which she appeared bruised and bleeding. She said she had been attacked by unknown knife-wielding assailants in Casablanca on Thursday night and claimed no police station or hospital would take her in.
“I went to Casablanca’s main police station in the middle of the night and was received with laughter,” she said in the video. “The police officer said: ‘Finally Abidar, you got beaten!’”
She added: “All this for a film you haven’t seen; you’ve only seen what people have put on the internet. God help me.”
Much Loved, which is credited with exposing the thriving sex industry in social conservative Morocco, was banned by the government shortly after its debut at the Cannes film festival in May. Minister of communication Mustapha El Khalfi said the film “undermines the moral values and dignity of Moroccan women, and is a flagrant attack on the Kingdom’s image”. Full story...
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