death_place death_date birth_place other_names nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
chefchaouen , morocco 2003 demnate , morocco fqih basri moroccan 1927 moroccan revolutionary and politician fqih basri
 mohamed basri political activist
fqih basri

mohamed basri widely known as fqih basri -lrb- 1927 in demnate , moroccooctober 14 , 2003 in chefchaouen , morocco -rrb- was a lifelong political activist and moroccan regime opponent .
mohamed basri was nicknamed ` fqih basri ' , since he had begun his studies at a quranic school before entering , in 1944 , marrakech 's ben yousef university , where he first joined the armed struggle against the french colonizers of morocco .
in 1954 , he was arrested by the authorities of the french protectorate and imprisoned at kenitra ; the next year , he succeeded in escaping from the prison along with 37 other insurgents .
after independence , while commanding the national liberation army of the south , he helped found the unfp , a socialist party that split from the istiqlal party in 1959 , and headed its daily newspaper , al-tahrir .
he was arrested and tortured for supposedly taking part in the so-called ` july 1960 plot ' against the monarchy , and again in 1963 .
in 1966 , he chose voluntary exile , not returning to morocco until june , 1995 .
after his exile he was repeatedly implicated by the regime in various real and imagined plots against the monarchy , and repeatedly sentenced to death in absentia .
victim of a heart attack , basri died in chefchaouen on october 14 , 2003 , soon after a paris surgical operation .
he was buried on 15 october .
