Dozens of people attended the funeral of leading Moroccan rights activist Abraham Serfaty on Friday, including representatives of NGOs and members of the government.
The funeral took place at a Jewish cemetery in the western Moroccan city where Serfaty was born.
Serfaty died on Thursday at the age of 84, after a lifetime campaigning for democracy, first against French colonial rulers and then King Hassan II's absolute monarchy.
Government ministers, an advisor to King Mohammed VI, representatives of rights groups and members of the Jewish community attended the funeral, along with Serfaty's wife, according to an AFP reporter.
"Serfaty was an activist who dedicated his life first to the anti-colonial struggle and then against the anti-democratic regime of King Hassan II," Moroccan Human Rights Association vice president Amine Abdelhamid told AFP.
A long-time member of the communist party, Serfaty was first jailed by the Moroccan regime in 1972, when he accused the authorities of torturing him.
In 1977 he was sentenced to life in prison for plotting against state security but he was freed in 1991 after an international campaign.
He was immediately expelled to France where he became well known in political circles before he was allowed to return to Morocco in 2000.