Thousands of protesters took the streets in Morocco

Thousands of protesters took the streets in Morocco on Sunday to demand sweeping changes to the nation's constitution, defying predictions that this thousand-year-old monarchy would prove an exception to the demands for greater democracy that are sweeping the region.

In Rabat, the capital, a crowd of up to 10,000 people marched through the streets chanting: 'Down with autocracy' and 'The people want to change the constitution,' as well as slogans against the government, corruption and state television.

Morocco is one of the last of the so-called Maghreb countries of Northern Africa to take to the streets in the wake of the fall of Tunisia's president this year, and many analysts have predicted it would prove an exception."

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