Since 2011, Morocco’s government has arrested and sentenced Mouad Belghouat, known throughout Morocco and Tunisia as the rapper El Haqed (or L7a9ed), three times in trials which have been condemned by numerous international human rights observers as unfair, biased, and in violation of international law. Upon El Haqed’s May of 2014 arrest and imprisonment, The Voice Project initiated its “Free Haqed” campaign and campaigners from all over the world wrote letters on the activist/artist’s behalf. El Haqed was released from Ain Borja prison in Casablanca on September 18, 2104.