Mr Ahmed Boukhari, the former Moroccan intelligence agent who revealed how the opposition leader Mr Mehdi Ben Barka was murdered, smuggled back to Morocco and dissolved in acid in 1965, has been sentenced to one year in prison and a £12,000 fine by a court in Casablanca, reports Lara Marlowe.
Mr Boukhari (62) was found guilty of writing two bad cheques nine years ago. Human rights groups said the charges were a pretext to silence the former agent, who talked of other "disappearances" - and named Moroccan officials involved in kidnapping, torture and assassination. He has been on hunger strike for the past week.