• DOI:10.1080/13629387.2018.1538188
Corpus ID: 149496054

Morocco’s Hirak movement and legacies of contention in the Rif

@article{Wolf2019MoroccosHM,
  title={Morocco’s Hirak movement and legacies of contention in the Rif},
  author={A. Wolf},
  journal={The Journal of North African Studies},
  year={2019},
  volume={24},
  pages={1 - 6}
}

A. Wolf

Published 2019

Political Science

The Journal of North African Studies

In August 2018, King Mohammed VI released 188 detainees linked to the Hirak al-Sha’bi (Popular Movement), which for over a year has led protests in Morocco’s marginalised Rif region in the north of the country. The Hirak emerged in mid 2017 out of a wider protest movement sparked by the gruesome death of a fish seller in the Rif’s coastal town of Al-Hoceima; in November 2016 Mouhcine Fikri was crushed to death by a rubbish truck as he tried to rescue the fish catch the police had confiscated… CONTINUE READING

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