Omar Benjelloun (Arabic: عمر بنجلون, romanized: ʿUmar Binjallūn; 1936 in Ain Bni Mathar – 18 December 1975 in Casablanca) was a Moroccan journalist, engineer, lawyer and trade union activist.
[2] In 1959, after leaving the Istiqlal Party with other members, he went on to become the general secretary of the socialist party USFP (Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires), of which he had been a founding member, and editor of its newspaper Al Muharrir.
[3][4] In 1963 he received a death sentence under the rule of Hassan II, but was later pardoned.
[1] On 18 December 1975 he was stabbed or battered to death in front of his home in Casablanca.
[7] After Benjelloun's assassination, Abdelkrim Motii, founder of the Shabiba Islamiya, had to flee Morocco.