Fqih Basri

Mohamed Basri (Arabic: محمد البصري) widely known as Fqih Basri (الفقيه البصري; 1927 in Demnate, Morocco – October 14, 2003 in Chefchaouen, Morocco) 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.

He was arrested and tortured for supposedly taking part in the so-called 'July 1960 Plot' against the monarchy, and again in 1963.

[1] Victim of a heart attack, Basri died in Chefchaouen on October 14, 2003, soon after a Paris surgical operation.