The police arrested Haydour on February 10, 2012 and the court convicted him three days later (misdemeanor case 168/2012). He has been serving his term in Taza Prison, where he went on hunger strike twice, most recently from March to May, to demand that he be separated from common-crime prisoners, and get free access to the prison library and fewer restrictions on visits, a family member told Human Rights Watch. Mustapha Khalfi, Morocco’s minister of communications and government spokesman, announced on May 2, 2012, the creation of a national committee for reforming the press and publishing laws. Khalfi told the media at the time that he expected the initiative to culminate in a new text that eliminated prison sanctions, “which would allow it to progress beyond the mistakes that were made in the [press] law of 2002.” Yet more than a year later, all of the repressive provisions of the press code and the penal code remain intact. The 2011 constitution created a right for people taken before the justice system to appeal to a newly created constitutional court, on the grounds that a law being applied in their case “undermines the rights and liberties guaranteed by the constitution” (article 133). The constitutional court can invalidate the law if it agrees. However, neither Haydour nor anyone else whose rights have been violated has been able to exercise this right, because legislators have yet to promulgate laws creating the court and defining its jurisdiction over such appeals. Moroccan legislators should move quickly to give effect to this new right to challenge the constitutionality of laws being used to prosecute them, Human Rights Watch said. Haydour is not the only Moroccan imprisoned in recent years for alleged affronts to the dignity of the king or members of the royal family. A court sentenced 18-year-old Walid Bahomane, in February 2012, to one year in prison for posting remarks and a caricature of King Mohammed VI deemed offensive to his dignity on a Facebook page belonging to someone else that Bahomane had allegedly hacked. There were also several such cases in the years preceding adoption of the new constitution. In 2007, seven members of the Moroccan Human Rights Association were imprisoned for “attacking sacred values” by allegedly chanting slogans against the king during May Day marches, only to be released in a royal pardon a year later. In February 2008, a wheelchair-bound 95-year-old, Ahmed Nasser, died in prison, five months into a three year sentence for allegedly muttering an insult to the king during a street altercation. On September 8 of that year, an Agadir court handed down a two year prison term to Mohamed Erraji for “disrespecting the king” in an article he published at www.hespress.com, criticizing Mohammed VI’s alleged dispensation of privileges and favors. An appeals court overturned Erraji's conviction a few weeks later.