Abdelkhalek Torres


Abdelkhalek Torres was a Moroccan journalist and nationalist leader based in Tetouan, Morocco during the Spanish protectorate of Morocco era.
He co-founded an arabophone newspaper entitled al-Hurriya along with Abdesalam Bennuna.
Torres's 1934 play Intissar al haq, "is still considered the first published Moroccan play," according to scholar Kamal Salhi.
His political activity from the 1930s on culminated in the independence of Morocco in 1956. In his later years, Torres served first as ambassador to Spain and Egypt, and then as Minister of Justice.