Saida Menebhi

Saida Menebhi (1952, Marrakesh - 11 December 1977, Casablanca) was a Moroccan poet and activist of a Marxist revolutionary movement Ila al-Amam. In 1975, she, together with five other members of the movement, was sentenced for seven years of imprisonment for anti-state activity. In the jail in Casablanca, she went on hunger strike and died on the 34th day of the strike.[1][2]

Her poetry, collected and published in 2000, is considered a prime example of Moroccan revolutionary and feminist literature. She wrote in French.

Abduction

On January 16, 1976, Saida Menebhi was abducted and detained—along with 3 other female activists—in the secret Moulay Sherif Prison in Casablanca, now known as a prominent center of torture in the period of King Hassan II.[3] There, they were subjected to a number of different kinds of physical and psychological torture before being transferred to the civilian prison in Casablanca.[4] Menebhi and her comrades Fatima Okasha and Rabiaa al-Futooh were sentenced to indefinite solitary confinement in the civilian prison of Casablanca.[5][4]

References
  1. Regina, Giusy (12 December 2011). "Marocco: 34° anniversario della morte di Saida Menebhi, icona d'attivismo" (in Italian). ArabPress. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  2. "11 décembre 1977 : décès de Saïda Menebhi, « la martyre du peuple marocain »" (in French). Diversgens. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  3. " الشهيدة سعيدة المنبهي كتبت الشعر بالاظافر والدم (مختارات من ديوانها) " . الموقع الإلكتروني لمؤسسة الحوار المتمدن . العدد 4867 . 15 يوليو 2015 Archived 2017-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "سعيدة المنبهي..امرأة أحبت الضوء". Hespress (in Arabic). Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  5. "محسين الشهباني - الشهيدة سعيدة المنبهي كتبت الشعر بالاظافر والدم (مختارات من ديوانها )". الحوار المتمدن. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
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