Mohamed Sektaoui, Director General of Amnesty Maroc (Amnesty Morocco), died early on Saturday in a private clinic in Rabat following a heart attack.
In a statement to Hespress, his friend, the former Secretary General of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH), Mohamed Neshnash, lamented the passing of “a fellow activist and one of Morocco’s leading human rights defenders”.
Aziz Ghali, president of the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH), also paid tribute to him on his Facebook account, sharing a photo featuring Moroccan human rights activists, including Neshnash and the late Sektaoui.
“The human rights activist and director general of Amnesty Morocco, Professor Mohamed Sektaoui, who has left our world, is a great loss to the human rights movement in Morocco at a time when we deeply need such leading figures,” he wrote.
He added: “It is truly a great loss to bid you farewell, Professor Mohamed Sektaoui. My most sincere condolences to his family, comrades and friends. We all share this profound sadness”.
Mohamed Sektaoui’s funeral is scheduled for this Saturday afternoon after the Asr prayer at the Chouhada cemetery in Rabat, in the presence of family, friends and loved ones.
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