Rabat, Jan. 29 -- Following the statement in which prison administrators said that Nasser Zefzafi , a leader of the Hirak Rif protests in Al Hoceima, self-harmed while in prison "to create disorder," his father denied the story and gave his own account.

At 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Zefzafi asked for medical care because of pain in one of his legs .

According to Zefzafi's father, Ahmed Zefzafi, the Hirak activism leader had symptoms of hemiplegia, the paralysis of one side of the body, which prison staff did not mention in their statement on Sunday.

Nasser Zefzafi "felt pain in one of his legs before it began to become like symptoms of hemiplegia since he could not move or feel the right side of his body," Ahmed Zefzafi wrote on his Facebo...