Ahmed Marzouki
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Ahmed Marzouki (; born 1947 in Bouajoul, Commune of Sidi Yahya Bni Zeroual, Taounate Province) is a former military Moroccan officer who was
forcibly disappeared An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing ...
after the failed coup attempt of 1971. Marzouki was a prisoner in Tazmamart, a notorious former secret detention centre in
Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
during the reign of
Hassan II Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to: People *Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name *Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scotti ...
. First arrested in 1973, he was finally released in 1991, but faced state harassment for years after. He is the author of a book about his experiences, ''Tazmamart Cellule 10'' (Tazmamart Cell 10).


Works

* Tazmamart cellule 10, Gallimard, 13 septembre 2001 * La peine du vide, Éditions Tarik, 2012. * Les bonnes nouvelles, Éditions Tarik, 2016. *Tazmamart cella 10, Csa Editrice, 2018.


See also

* Tazmamart *
Ali Bourequat Ali Bourequat is a Moroccan/Tunisian businessman who was secretly arrested and incarcerated for years by the Moroccan government in the infamous secret prison Tazmamart.Alain Brossat, Jean-Louis Déotte, ''La mort dissoute: disparition et spect ...
* Years of lead * Human rights in Morocco


Further reading

* ''Tazmamart Cellule 10'', Editions Paris Méditerranée;
Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...
: Tarik Editions ()


External links


International Human Rights Federation (FIDH) - Interview with Mr. Marzouki.
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