Salah ed-Dine El-Ouadie ( ''Salah ed-Diin el-Wadii'') is a Moroccan

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and

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activist. He is the president and founder of Damir.

Studies

He was born in August, 1952 in either Asfi or

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. He earned a degree in

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in 1982, then a degree in

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from

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in 1987. He was imprisoned at the secret Derb Moulay Sherif Prison in

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Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

during the Years of Lead under the reign of Hassan II.

Human rights

Member of the

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and former detainee of Derb Mulay Sherif Prison, Salah el-Ouadie identified Qadour el-Youssfi—a member of the Moroccan delegation that affirmed before the UN in Geneva that there was no torture in Morocco—as the main torturer and man in charge of Derb Mulay Sherif Prison when el-Ouadie was there. In accordance with the official policy of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission of addressing the hardships of the victims without harming the aggressors, el-Ouadie did not publicly reveal the name of the official, though he did address him in a famous open letter, ''Lettre ouverte à mon tortionnaire''.

Career

In 1997, he was hired as a professor at the Upper School of Management and Entrepreneurship in Casablanca. He did not cease his literary activity, and began organizing and presenting the program ''Moment of Poetry'' ( ''Lahdhat Shi3r'') on the 2M TV channel from 2000 to 2002. He remained an active member of civil society, through work in associations and NGOs such as the

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, which he co-founded in 1988, as well as the Moroccan Forum for Truth and Justice. He also received an honor from King Muhammad VI on behalf of his late sister, the judge and human rights activist .

Works

''The Wound of the Bare Chest'' جراح الصدر العاري 1985 ''There is Still Something in the Heart Worth of Attention'' مازال في القلب شيء يستحق الانتباه 1988 ''The Groom'' العريس a novel 1998

References

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