Mohammed VI inaugurates the Equity and Reconciliation Commission

On 7 January 2004, Mohammed VI inaugurates the Equity and Reconciliation Commission to examine past enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention and recommend reparations.

Portrait of Mohammed VI photographed in 2004. — Mohammed VI, 26 November 2004. Illustrative archive portrait; this photograph does not depict the activity reported. U. Dettmar/ABr; edited by Quibik, CC BY 3.0 BR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/. — U. Dettmar/ABr ; retouche Quibik / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 3.0 BR https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/ — archives du 26 novembre 2004.

The CNDH documents this transitional-justice mandate. Human Rights Watch corroborates the inauguration while examining structural and political limits on the commission’s work. Establishment of the IER does not mean that every question of accountability is resolved.

[Full inauguration speech, in French via Le Matin](https://lematin.ma/journal/2004/S-M--le-Roi-reaffirme-la-volonte-du-Maroc-de-clore-definitivement-le-dossier-des-droits-de-l-Homme/36084/amp).

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