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Mehdi Ben Barka (Arabic: المهدي بن بركة, romanized: al-Mahdī bin Baraka; 1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965) was a Moroccan nationalist, Arab socialist, politician, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference.
Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan revolutionary politician exiled to Paris whose abduction and presumed murder in October 1965 caused a political crisis for the government of French President Charles de Gaulle and led to ruptured diplomatic relations between France and Morocco for almost four years.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mehdi Ben Barka (en arabe : المهدي بن بركة), né en janvier 1920 à Rabat et disparu le 29 octobre 1965 à Fontenay-le-Vicomte , est un homme politique marocain qui fut l'un des principaux opposants socialistes au roi Hassan II et le chef de file du mouvement tiers-mondiste et panafricaniste.
Dec 29, 1975 · On the gray afternoon of Oct. 29, 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka—a self-exiled left-wing Moroccan politician and a well-known critic of King Hassan II —was stopped outside the Brasserie Lipp on...
Nov 6, 2020 · The 1965 disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka in Paris, the catalyst of one of the greatest political scandals in the history of post-war France, is still shrouded in mystery several decades later.
- Jan Koura
- 2021
Oct 28, 2015 · Fifty years after Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka was abducted and forcibly disappeared in Paris, Amnesty International expresses its continuing solidarity with his family and Moroccan human rights groups in their quest for justice, truth and reparation.
On the eve of the 38th anniversary of the "disappearance" in Paris of leading left-wing activist Mehdi Ben Barka, Amnesty International calls on the Moroccan authorities to take the long-overdue step of launching an investigation into the case.
