Editing French protectorate in Morocco (section)

== Repression ==
[[Hubert Lyautey]] established the Native Policy Council ({{Lang|fr|Conseil de politique indigène}})<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k63033798|title=Les Annales coloniales: organe de la "France coloniale moderne" / directeur: Marcel Ruedel|last=texte|first=France coloniale moderne Auteur du|date=2 March 1922|website=Gallica|language=FR|access-date=25 June 2019}}</ref> which oversaw colonial rule in the protectorate. Under the protectorate, Moroccans were prevented from attending large political gatherings.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=A history of modern Morocco|last=Miller, Susan Gilson.|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139624695|location=New York|pages=124|oclc=855022840}}</ref> This was because colonial forces deemed they might "hear things beyond their capacity to understand."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hoisington|first=William A. Jr.|date=1 March 2000|title=Designing Morocco's future: France and the Native Policy Council, 1921–25|journal=The Journal of North African Studies|volume=5|issue=1|pages=63–108|doi=10.1080/13629380008718388|s2cid=143725817|issn=1362-9387}}</ref>

French authorities also forbade Arabic-language newspapers from covering politics, which sparked claims of censorship.<ref name=":0" /> Under the French protectorate, entire articles were censored from the [[Istiqlal Party|Istiqlal Party's]] Arabic ''[[Al-Alam]]'' newspaper, which was printed with blocks of missing text.<ref>{{Citation|last=Bitton|first=Simone, (1955– ...)., Réalisateur / Metteur en scène / Directeur|title=Ben Barka l'équation marocaine|date=2010 |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/690860373|publisher=L'Harmattan vidéo [éd., distrib.] |isbn=978-2-296-10925-4|oclc=690860373|access-date=2021-07-06}}</ref>