Update: RSF also reports that Fouad is free.

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Global Voices asserts that Fouad Mourtada has been released from prison with a “full royal pardon.” If this is true, it’s fantastic news for Fouad. Not great news for free speech or Morocco, though, that it took a royal pardon. Can anyone confirm this?

Mourtada was sentenced to three years in prison for creating a fake Facebook profile of his country’s crown prince. Facebook claimed not to have assisted in identifying Fouad.