TORTURE ALLEGATIONS
CABARET QUEEN’S CRIMES GAOL FOR 15 YEAF.3
FEiX (Morocco), Dec. 6.—Covering lier face with her white muslin veil, Moulay, Tassen, Moroccan cabaret queen, tossed her head and stood rigid and arrogant while sentence of 15 years’ hard labour was passed on her at one, o’clock this looming. Y She had been accused of the murder of a dancing girl in her Meknes. night club, and of torturing other girl inmates of the club. “Sentence this witch from Macbeth * to hard labour for life,” Prosecutor Maitre Boulm cried in his closing speech. “It will not be so hard as the fate she imposed on her victims.” ' The terror Moulay Tassen inspired was shown as girl witnesses were led toi tlie stand near the prisoner's dockThey cringed and wept under her gaze. Mohammed Ben Ah, 'partner in Moulay Hasson’s crime, who claims to lie descended from the Prophet Mohammed, was sentenced to 10- years' hard labour.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 135, 18 January 1939, Page 2
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156TORTURE ALLEGATIONS Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 135, 18 January 1939, Page 2
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