Former exile Benomar returns home
Morocco, Politics, 5/30/2005

Moroccan former exile Jamal Eddine Benomar returned Sunday to the kingdom after 20 years.

In an interview with the Moroccan channel TVM, Benomar said "I'm glad to return home," noting the kingdom is undergoing positive changes in human rights.

Recalling the past human rights violations and the sufferings he endured during his incarceration, he voiced the wish to see a country different from that where he lived twenty years ago.

He hailed the efforts aimed at shedding light on the past human rights violations, describing them as "important and positive."

Before his exile, Benomar spent ten years in prison before being granted a royal pardon in 1983. He is currently the vice-secretary general of the UN in charge of rebuilding Iraq.

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