Derb Moulay Cherif
{{Short description|Neighbourhood in Casablanca}}
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Derb Moulay Cherif ({{Langx|ar|درب مولاي الشريف|lit=}}) is a neighborhood in Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca.
Derb Moulay Cherif prison
The neighborhood was the site of a clandestine torture and detention center during the Years of Lead of King Hassan II,{{Cite journal|last=Slyomovics|first=Susan|date=2001|title=A Truth Commission for Morocco|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1559305|journal=Middle East Report|issue=218|pages=18–21|doi=10.2307/1559305|jstor=1559305 |issn=0899-2851}} though its history dates back to the period of French Protectorate, when it was used for the torture of Moroccan Nationalist Movement.{{Cite web|last=Brown|first=Claudia|date=2001-04-13|title=Morocco's Survivors / Activists shed light on 'dark years|url=https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Morocco-s-Survivors-Activists-shed-light-on-2932010.php|access-date=2021-07-16|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}} Victims of torture at the prison include Saida Menebhi,{{Cite web|date=2019-12-11|title=سعيدة المنبهي الماركسية التي أوصت الجميع أن "يتذكروها بفرح"|url=https://www.febrayer.com/690804.html|access-date=2021-07-16|website=فبراير.كوم {{!}} موقع مغربي إخباري شامل يتجدد على مدار الساعة|language=en-US}} Abraham Serfaty,{{Citation|title=🇲🇦 Abraham Serfaty: Morocco's Mandela {{!}} Al Jazeera World|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMG_ECewV5Y|language=en|access-date=2021-07-16}} Fatna El Bouih, Salah El-Ouadie,{{Cite web|title=صلاح الوديع: المتصالح مع الذات والتجارب|url=https://ahdath.info/170981|access-date=2019-12-12|website=أحداث.أنفو|date=21 April 2016 |language=ar}} Abdellatif Zeroual,{{Cite web|last=Yabiladi.com|title=Organisations secrètes marocaines #2 : Ila Al Amam, de l'ombre de la clandestinité aux geôles des années de plomb|url=https://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/57237/organisations-secretes-marocaines-amam-l-ombre.html|access-date=2021-07-16|website=www.yabiladi.com|language=fr}} and others.
In literature
Salah El-Ouadie addressed his torturer in a famous open letter: {{Lang|fr|Lettre ouverte à mon tortionnaire}}.{{Cite news|date=1999-04-22|title=Quand un Marocain interpelle son tortionnaire|language=fr|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1999/04/22/quand-un-marocain-interpelle-son-tortionnaire_3556611_1819218.html|access-date=2020-01-04}} Fatna El Bouih published Talk of Darkness ({{Lang|ar|حديث العتمة}}; 2001).{{Cite web|date=2020-01-17|title=ابن الوليد ينبش ذاكرة الاعتقال السياسي بالمغرب|url=https://www.hespress.com/ابن-الوليد-ينبش-ذاكرة-الاعتقال-السياس-537476.html|access-date=2021-07-16|website=Hespress - هسبريس جريدة إلكترونية مغربية|language=ar}} Jaouad Mdidech wrote his memoir Derb Moulay Cherif: The Dark Room ({{Lang|ar|درب مولاي الشريف - الغرفة السوداء}}; 2002) about his experience.
See also
References
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