After considering Morocco’s report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee criticized the Moroccan Government’s May 2003 counterterrorism legislation including: its broad definition of terrorist acts, according to which any “grave assault by means of violence” could constitute a terrorist act; the de facto retroactive application of the anti-terrorism law adopted in May 2003; the possibility of police detention of up to 96 hours (renewable twice) without access to a judge and limitations placed on access to legal counsel following arrest in counter-terrorism cases.