Abraham Serfaty

Abraham Serfaty (Arabic: أبراهام السرفاتي, romanized: Abrāhām as-Sarfātī‎; 16 January 1926 – 18 November 2010) was an internationally prominent Moroccan Marxist-Leninist dissident, militant, and political activist, who was imprisoned for years by King Hassan II of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy , during the Years of Lead. He paid a high price for such actions: fifteen months living underground, seventeen years of imprisonment and eight years of exile. He returned to Morocco in September 1999.