You can’t kiss publicly when you are teenagers, in Morocco. A few dozen Moroccans took part in a “kiss-in” Saturday in Rabat to support three teenagers arrested for posting a picture of themselves kissing on Facebook.
The protesters were confronted by onlookers as they kissed and chanted “Long live love”, France24 reports.
The demonstrators gathered outside parliament for “a symbolic kiss of love”, one participant, Nizar Benamate, told AFP after the display before a group of onlookers and reporters.
“For us, the message got through. It was a success. There were couples and single people, and the couples were not embarrassed in public,” said Ibtissam Lachgar, one of the organisers. “Our message is that they are defending love, the freedom to love and kiss freely,” she said.
A small group of counter-protesters shoved some of the couples and threw chairs…
