The Marrakech Court of Appeal sentenced, Wednesday, Moroccan singer Dounia Btama in the «Hamza mon BB» case. Previously sentenced to 8 months in prison, the court raised the sentence to one year and fined the singer to 10,000 dirhams. The court reduced the sentence handed down at first instance against Aicha Ayach from one and a half year to one year in prison and upheld the sentences against Ibtissam Batma (one year in prison) and Soufia CHakiri (ten months in prison). For the record, the Marrakech court of first instance sentenced Dounia Batma in July 2020 to eight months in prison. The Batma sisters were accused of participating in fraudulent access to computer system data, willfully participating in obstructing the operation of this system, disseminating images and statements by others without their consent, spreading unfounded facts with the aim of invading the privacy of individuals and defamation as well as blackmail. The «Hamza mon BB» case made headlines in August 2019 when Moroccan singer Saïda Charaf lodged a complaint against the anonymous administrator of an account on social media. The latter revealed intimate details of the private life of several Moroccan celebrities. On September 16, the main author and owner of the accounts was arrested, then brought before the court of first instance in Marrakech. One of the people prosecuted in this case then revealed that the Batma sisters are also involved in the case.
