Driss Benzekri (1950 – 20 May 2007) was a Moroccan left-wing political and human rights activist.
[citation needed] Quite young, he participated in the short-lived Marxist movement Ila al-Amam and was arrested in 1974, at the age of 24, and sentenced in 1977 to 30 years in prison.
In 2003 he was asked by the Moroccan King Mohammed VI to preside the newly created Equity and Reconciliation Commission, which gathered testimonies from hundreds of former political prisoners or their families and allocated indemnification to them.
[3] In 2005, after the IER was closed, he took the direction of the Consultative Council of Human Rights, an official institution.
Although he was sometimes criticized for associating so closely with the government, most independent human right organizations paid homage to his work and achievements.