Racines, an association, was targeted because its office was used as a venue to record an episode of the talk show ‘1 Dîner 2 Cons’. During the show, some guests criticized King Mohammed VI’s speeches and policies, in a context of increased police repression of street protests. The episode was posted on YouTube and had been viewed more than half a million times. The governor of Casablanca-Anfa, wrote to Casablanca’s general prosecutor, requesting Racines’ dissolution on the grounds that the group had “organized an activity including interviews interspersed with clear offenses towards institutions (… and in which) political opinions were expressed that are very remote from the purposes for which the association was created.” The general prosecutor petitioned the court to dissolve Racines and the court ordered the dissolution. The court seemed to imply that hosting a show like ‘1 Dîner 2 Cons’ was beyond the scope of the association’s stated objectives, despite Racines’ 2015 statutes including “activism for freedom of speech” among its objectives. Additionally, its updated 2018 statutes state that part of Racines’ mission is to implement “debates (…) concerning free speech.” It is the first time an established NGO in Morocco has been dissolved.