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RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Driss Benzekri, a former political prisoner who later headed a truth commission in Morocco, has died, a former colleague and fellow detainee said Monday. He was 57.
Benzekri died here Sunday of complications from stomach cancer, said Abdelhamid Amin, a former president of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights.
Benzekri was president of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission, founded in 2004 by Morocco's King Mohamed VI to look into past human rights abuses — including under the monarch's father, King Hassan II. It was the first such truth-seeking body in the Arab world and has been praised as a model for other Arab countries confronting dark pasts.
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