Moroccan university students have broken silence about professors who demand sexual favors in exchange for good grades, a scandal that has shaken the higher education system.

The testimonies have flooded social networks in the style of the #MeToo movement, encouraged by activists in the conservative nation of North Africa where victims of sexual violence usually remain silent. A year under the pretext that he had copied on an exam, ”said Nadia, a 24 -year -old student, who refused to give her full name. "The truth is that I just refused to submit to the sexual blackmail of one of my teachers." It is now wrapped in a scandal that involves five teachers. while four other must appear before a court on Monday.

"My case was not isolated," said Nadia. "Other girls suffered similar things, but nobody wanted to listen to us." /P>

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The turning point occurred when online screenshots were published, supposedly of messages in which teachers demanded sexual favors to the students.

“There was no considered presenting a D states, but after the scandal broke out, I filed a civil demand, ”said Nadia. > An association that helped bring some of the scandals to light was "7achak", an expression in the local dialect used to apologize before addressing a taboo theme.

The movement launched a page of Instagram that invites women victims of harassment to share their stories. "Those accompanied by evidence were published."

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More accusations against university professors began to emerge online. As an instructor, ”wrote a former student of the National School of Business and Administration in Oujda.

Other victims also shared their experiences with that teacher, which resulted in his suspension. Some business school officials, considered “accomplices”, were also dismissed, said the Ministry of Higher Education last month.

- 'Zero tolerance' -

in Tangier, a teacher of a translation school was convicted and sentenced to prison in early January for sexual harassment, lawyer Aicha Guellaa told AFP. They presented “almost 70 complaints” at the Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tetuán, but so far they have not managed to obtain an answer from the administration of the U Niversity. , Abdelatif Miraoui, to promise "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment. Sexual violence. P> In 2018, after years of intense debate, a law that imposed prison sentences for “harassment, aggression, exploitation or sexual abuse,”

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