The role of women in the movement of families of political prisoners during Morocco’s Years of Lead

Authors

  • José María González Riera Universidad de Granada

Keywords:

History of Morocco, Movement of families, Women, Prison

Abstract

At the beginning of the 1970s, the families of political prisoners, mainly of Marxist-Leninist ideology, united to try breaking the silence about the situation of their relatives and to demand their release. They formed a social movement, mostly integrated by women, upon realization of their relatives’ defencelessness, fostered  by the passivity of most political parties, trade unions and the press in the face of the wave of arrests carried out by the State.

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Author Biography

José María González Riera, Universidad de Granada

Ex Becario FPUDoctorando en el Área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos del Departamento de Estudios Semíticos de la UGRDoctorando asociado al Centre Jacques Berque de Rabat (CNRS) 

Published

2016-01-05

How to Cite

González Riera, J. M. (2016). The role of women in the movement of families of political prisoners during Morocco’s Years of Lead. Miscelánea De Estudios Árabes Y Hebraicos. Sección Árabe-Islam, 65, 51–66. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/meaharabe/article/view/14164

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