The Court of Rome decided, late Thursday, to liberate Moroccan senator Yahya Yahya prior to his appearance before the court of appeal, official MAP news agency reported on Friday.
The House of Advisors member was arrested on Aug. 4 in Rome for allegedly causing a breach to the peace, and he was sentenced, in a summary judgment, to a prison term of two and a half years.
Last week, the court of Rome decided to put Yahya under house arrest pending his appeal trial.
Following his arrest in early August, he was forbidden from contacting the Moroccan diplomatic representation for over two weeks until last Thursday.
Moroccan authorities were informed on Aug. 5, that is the next day of his arrest, at a time when the summary trial had already taken place, lawyer of the Moroccan embassy in Rome, Domenico Naccari had said.
In response to the arrest and trial of the MP, Morocco recalled last week its ambassador in Rome Tajeddine Baddou to provide the national authorities with the necessary information and assessment on the grounds, circumstances and development of this issue of concern, which involves an elected representative of the Moroccan people, according to a statement of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
In July, Yahya was handed down a suspended two-year prison terms in Spain on alleged wife abuse, and on having violently resisted the police officers who came to arrest him in the Spanishenclave of Melilla, northern Morocco.
Local press had linked the arrest to Yahya's opposition to the Spanish presence in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, both on the Moroccan soil, and over which the north African kingdom is claiming sovereignty.
Source: Xinhua
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