Omar Benjelloun
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Omar Benjelloun assassinated on 18 December 1975 in Casablanca
, was a journalist, engineer, lawyer and trade union activist.
Following his graduation in telecommunications and law in Paris, Benjelloun returned to Morocco to take up a post as a regional director in telecommunications in Casablanca.
He went on to become the General Secretary of the socialist party USFP
(Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires), of which he had been a founding member, and editor of its journal al-Muharrir.
In 1963 he received a death sentence, but was later pardoned. He was again arrested in 1966 and 1973 and subjected to torture.
On 18 December 1975 he was stabbed or battered to death in front of his home in Casablanca.
It is suspected that he was killed by the Chabiba islamia
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Casablanca
Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...
, was a journalist, engineer, lawyer and trade union activist.
Following his graduation in telecommunications and law in Paris, Benjelloun returned to Morocco to take up a post as a regional director in telecommunications in Casablanca.
He went on to become the General Secretary of the socialist party USFP
Socialist Union of Popular Forces
The Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, is a social democratic political party in Morocco...
(Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires), of which he had been a founding member, and editor of its journal al-Muharrir.
In 1963 he received a death sentence, but was later pardoned. He was again arrested in 1966 and 1973 and subjected to torture.
On 18 December 1975 he was stabbed or battered to death in front of his home in Casablanca.
It is suspected that he was killed by the Chabiba islamia
Chabiba islamia
Chabiba islamia or Chabiba Al Islamiya was a violent clandestine and extremist Moroccan, Islamist group founded in 1969 by Abdelkrim Motii and Kamal Ibrahim. Its goal was the establishment of an Islamic state in Morocco....
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