Hajar, a reporter at Akhbar al-Youm, was arrested with her fiancé while leaving her gynecologist’s office. The king’s prosecutors charged the couple with engaging in premarital sex and terminating a pregnancy, both criminal acts in Morocco. The trial required the twenty-eight-year-old Raissouni to submit to an unwanted and unnecessary gynecological examination. “It was an inhuman experience: imagine a ‘doctor’ forcibly inserting instruments into your vagina, without your consent,” Hajar told reporters from the French publications Mediapart and L’Humanité. “I was raped by the Moroccan state.”
