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On January 15, Fouad Mourtada created a fake Facebook profile for the Moroccan prince, Moulay Rachid. "It was just a joke, a gag," Mourtada says. Moroccan authorities didn't get it. On February 5, Moroccan police arrested Mourtada. Here's his account of the next two days.
I was arrested on the morning of Tuesday by two individuals who embarked me on a vehicle then blindfolded my eyes with a black band. After about fifteen minutes, they changed vehicle, then took me along to some building to undergo an interrogation there. There I was persecuted, beaten up, slapped, spat on and insulted. I was also slammed for hours with a tool on the head and the legs. This calvary lasted such a long time that I lost consciousness several times and also lost the notion of time. I was completely surprised to learn, when I was taken again to another location, that it was WednesdayWe don't know what Mourtada means by "calvary," but Bill Gates is surely looking it up.
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