Abraham Serfaty

Abraham Serfaty

Engineer and dissident · 1926–2010

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Moroccan engineer and Marxist dissident of a Tangier family. Arrested in 1974, he spent seventeen years in prison and was then forced into exile; he returned in 1999 under King Mohammed VI and became a symbol of Morocco's years of repression and reconciliation.

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