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Returning to the visit of Juan Carlos, we have learned that he had alluded to the release of Spanish prisoners held in Moroccan prisons. Everyone knows the state of prisons in Morocco. It is unremarkable that a foreign head of state would solicit a gesture of clemency in the release of prisoners from conditions that are, if not inhumane, at least degrading. Morocco could have countered with an offer of transfer. A bilateral agreement stipulates that Spanish prisoners convicted in Moroccan courts can complete their sentences in Spain, according to the 30 May 1997 convention on the assistance to detainees and the transfer of sentenced prisoners. Morocco could have also carefully determined the list of prisoners to pardon according to humanitarian criteria (age, family situation, state of health, etc.) or according to the politics of the sentence (short sentence, less serious infractions, good behavior of detainee). These are the usual considerations for pardons. The Moroccan institutions cannot thus be discharged from their very heavy responsibility in the instance of their focus on the preparation of the list.