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Saleh Hachad

Saleh Hachad

1938–2025

Nationality
Morocco
Occupation
fighter pilot

Salah Hachad (Arabic: صالح حشاد; 1938 – 13 September 2025) was a Moroccan fighter pilot and squadron leader in the Royal Moroccan Air Force.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Tazmamart
    Dates unknown

Biography

Salah Hachad (Arabic: صالح حشاد; 1938 – 13 September 2025) was a Moroccan fighter pilot and squadron leader in the Royal Moroccan Air Force. One of the country’s earliest jet aviators, he became embroiled—willingly or otherwise—in the 1972 Moroccan coup attempt, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment and spent eighteen of them in the secret Tazmamart desert jail. Freed in 1991, he later recounted his experiences in a widely viewed 2009 televised interview series.

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