This paper outlines Amnesty International’s concern about the fate of two Moroccan prisoners of conscience and trade union activists. Abdelhaq Rouissi, a former employee of the Banque du Maroc in Casablanca is an activist in the Union marocaine du travail (UMT), Moroccan Labour Union. He “disappeared” on 4 October 1964. Houcine El-Manouzi, a 49-year-old trade union activist in the UMT, “disappeared” while on a trip to Tunis in 1972, after being sentenced to death in absentia in 1971, after a major political trial. Fresh information received by Amnesty International suggests that these men may be alive and detained in secret detention centres.
