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Rabat, Morocco

Kiss-in: Protesters staged a “kiss-in” this week in support of a teenage couple who were arrested after posting photos of their kiss on Facebook. The boy, 15, and girl, 14, and a friend who took the photos were charged with “violating public decency” and will be tried next month. An online campaign to kiss publicly outside the Parliament building in solidarity drew more than 2,000 supporters, but only about a dozen couples actually kissed at the protest. Morocco, a relatively moderate Muslim country that boasts Africa’s highest rate of Internet usage, has been growing more conservative since Islamists swept the 2011 elections in the wake of Arab Spring democratic reforms.

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