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Mehdi Ben Barka (Arabic: المهدي بن بركة, romanized: al-Mahdī bin Baraka; 1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965) was a Moroccan nationalist, Arab socialist, politician, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference.
Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan revolutionary politician exiled to Paris whose abduction and presumed murder in October 1965 caused a political crisis for the government of French President Charles de Gaulle and led to ruptured diplomatic relations between France and Morocco for almost four years.
Discours de Patrice Leclerc, Maire de Gennevilliers et Bachir fils de Mehdi en Barka lors de l'inauguration de l'Allée Mehdi Ben Barka à Gennevilliers mercre...
Nov 6, 2020 · The 1965 disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka in Paris, the catalyst of one of the greatest political scandals in the history of post-war France, is still shrouded in mystery several decades later.
Oct 28, 2015 · Fifty years after Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka was abducted and forcibly disappeared in Paris, Amnesty International expresses its continuing solidarity with his family and Moroccan human rights groups in their quest for justice, truth and reparation.
Fifty years after Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka was abducted and forcibly disappeared in Paris, Amnesty International expresses its continuing solidarity with his family and Moroccan human rights groups in their quest for justice, truth and reparation.
Mar 18, 2024 · Mehdi Ben Barka was a leading figure in the Moroccan nationalist movement against French colonialism. Imprisoned for a year after signing the Proclamation of Independence of Morocco in 1944, Ben Barka played a leading role in the Istiqlal party and was involved in the 1955 negotiations with the French government in Aix-les-Bains.
Dec 29, 1975 · On the gray afternoon of Oct. 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka—a self-exiled left-wing Moroccan politician and a well-known critic of King Hassan II —was stopped outside the Brasserie Lipp on...
The widow of Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka, who disappeared in Paris in 1965, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 26, in Paris, surrounded by her loved ones.
Oct 28, 2016 · In 1965 French agents in Paris helped kidnap and disappear Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan dissident and global left-wing activist.
