Salah El-Ouadie
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1952 (age 72–73)
Salah El-Ouadie صلاح الدين الوديع | |
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 Salah El-Ouadie in November 2024 | |
| Born | Salah El-Ouadie 1952 (age 72–73) Morocco |
| Occupation | Poet, Novelist, Political Activist |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Subjects | Political Activism, Human Rights, Cultural Identity |
Salah ed-Dine El-Ouadie (Arabic: صلاح الدين الوديع Salah ed-Diin el-Wadii) is a Moroccan poet and human rights activist. He is the president and founder of Damir.[1]
He was born in August, 1952 in either Asfi[2] or Rabat.[3][4] He earned a degree in philosophy in 1982, then a degree in political science from Montpellier in 1987.[4] He was imprisoned at the secret Derb Moulay Sherif Prison in Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca during the Years of Lead under the reign of Hassan II.[5]
Human rights
Member of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission 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[6]—as the main torturer and man in charge of Derb Mulay Sherif Prison when el-Ouadie was there.[7][8] 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.[9]
His name became associated with the left, leading him to enter parliamentary and local elections, but each time his electoral ventures ended in abject failure. n 2008, he joined the ranks of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, but he resigned several years later.[10]
