Some officials have called for a review of Article 475. Bassima Hakkaoui, minister of solidarity, women and the family, and the only woman among the 29 ministers in the government led by the Islamist Justice and Development Party, acknowledged that there was a “real problem” and called for a debate on changing the law. But she warned that this must not be done under pressure or in haste, which left activists uneasy.

Indeed, after a conference in Casablanca late last month organized by the Moroccan newspaper Al-Massae — which caused an uproar when it was announced that Mustapha Kellak, the alleged rapist, would attend — Ms. Hakkaoui claimed that Ms. Filali had consented to the marriage.

Activists were shocked: “Translation: Amina is guilty,” wrote Ghali Bensouda, a 20-year-old student, on Facebook. “Bassima insults Amina’s memory.”

Activists were further alarmed when Justice Minister El Mostafa Ramid denied in a news release posted on the ministry’s Web site that Ms. Filali had been raped and also claimed that she had consented to marriage.

“He was talking about it like it was something that was normal, that the only thing that really shocked him was the fact that she killed herself,” Ms. Belmahi said. “I was disappointed. The problem wasn’t the fact that she killed herself. It was that she was forced to marry her rapist.”

The uneasiness that activists like Ms. Belmahi feel about the case extends to their concerns about possible backsliding on women’s rights under the conservative government.

“Women being victims of horrendous violence like this, women killing themselves to escape from violent situations, is nothing new in Morocco,” said Stephanie Willman Bordat, Maghreb regional director of Global Rights. “It’s the political context, both what is going on here and what is happening regionally. Everyone is on guard, everyone is nervous, everyone is alert.”