Moroccan rapper Jawad Asradi, born in 1995 in Imouzzer Kandar and known as Pause Flow, has been sentenced to one year in prison and fined 5,000 Moroccan dirhams ($500) over lyrics in his song Cent Daz.
The Court of First Instance in Sefrou issued the ruling on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 19, through its chamber for flagrante delicto cases, following a complaint filed by his ex-wife. The court also ordered Asradi to pay 50,000 Moroccan dirhams ($5,000) to his ex-wife as part of civil claims attached to the case. The same panel acquitted him of a charge of threatening his ex-wife and notified him of a 10-day window to appeal.
The case began on Monday, August 10, when security forces in Imouzzer Kandar arrested Asradi. His ex-wife had filed a complaint accusing him of insults, slander, and defamation, linking those accusations to the lyrics of Cent Daz, in which he addressed details of their relationship.
Prosecutors pursued several counts against Asradi:
- Broadcasting and distributing false allegations and false facts with the aim of harming an individual’s private life and defaming them
- Public insults and slander committed against a woman on the basis of her sex
- Threatening his ex-wife
Prior conviction
This is not Asradi’s first conviction. In late 2025, the same Sefrou court handed him a three-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 2,000 Moroccan dirhams ($200) over lyrics in several songs. The ordinary appeals chamber at the Court of Appeal in Fez upheld that ruling on June 18, 2026.
In that earlier case, Asradi was prosecuted while in detention after being arrested on November 20 of the previous year. He faced charges of “insulting a constituted body” and “insulting public officials through statements and expressions considered damaging to their honor, their feelings, and the respect due to them in the exercise of their duties.”
