Four Moroccan youths sentenced for drinking fruit juice during Ramadan

During Ramadan, Muslims are forbidden from several activities from dawn until sunset like eating, drinking, smoking and having sex. Any violation of this religious code is viewed very seriously as four Moroccan youths have found out the hard way.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 15 July 1015.

The police have arrested them because they were drinking fruit juice in public during the daylight hours of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. They have received suspended four-month jail terms. There was a fifth young person – he was below the age of 18 and would go before a juvenile court on the same charges.
Under Moroccan law, the offenders could have got a penalty of up to six months behind bars. Hence, the punishment is light.
All the five were arrested July 6 in Marrakesh which is Morocco’s main tourist destinations. It seems they had been accompanying a friend to the airport and stopped to buy fruit juice from sellers in Jamaa El Fna Square. They even drank the juice in public and other juice sellers alerted the police.
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