1. Nasser Zefzafi is a Moroccan political activist and human rights activist.
11 Facts About Nasser Zefzafi
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On May 29,2017, Nasser Zefzafi was arrested by the Moroccan police and charged with a list of crimes that included undermining state security, disrespecting the king, and receiving funds from abroad used for plots to destabilize the country.
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Nasser Zefzafi was born in 1979 in the city of Al Hoceima in northern Morocco.
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Nasser Zefzafi's family was politically active family and his great-grandfather Shaikh l-Yazid n-Hajj Hammu was the minister of interior of the Rif Republic under the rule of Abd el-Krim El-Khattabi.
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Nasser Zefzafi's father was an activist in the leftist party of National Union of Popular Forces.
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Nasser Zefzafi participated in the protests after the death of Mohcine Fikri, a 31-year-old fish mongerer, who was crushed to death in a garbage truck on October 28,2016, after trying to recover his confiscated merchandise from a policeman.
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The contestation took a political and identity turn since April 2017, when the Moroccan government initially accused the Riffian movement of separatism and being secretly steered from abroad, while Nasser Zefzafi denied all these accusations.
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On May 29,2017, Nasser Zefzafi was arrested in Al Hoceima and then shown transported in a helicopter by Gendarmerie to Casablanca, before being charged with "threatening national security".
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Nasser Zefzafi denounced in particular the deportation of Riffians and the siege imposed on the Rif.
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Nasser Zefzafi was defended by a team of lawyers which included former Moroccan minister Mohammed Ziane.
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On June 26,2018, Nasser Zefzafi received a 20-year imprisonment along with the other political activists after numerous cancelled trials since their detention.