January 9, 2021 at 4:06 pm | Published in: Africa, Morocco, News
A festival to celebrate the Amazigh new year in Morocco on 12 January 2015 [FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images] January 9, 2021 at 4:06 pm
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), the largest human rights association in the country, demanded on Friday recognition of the Amazigh New Year as an official holiday.
The Amazigh New Year is called January Night and celebrated on 13 January of each year.
In a letter addressed to the Moroccan Prime Minister, Saad-Eddine El-Othmani, the AMDH said that its demand comes in the context of lifting the injustice and discrimination that affects the heritage of Amazigh culture and identity.
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