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Rabat - Thousands of supporters of Morocco's biggest opposition movement buried their late leader's widow on Thursday after a standoff with security forces who tried to prevent her being laid to rest beside his grave.
It was one of the biggest shows of defiance by the Islamist movement Justice and Spirituality, or Al-Adl Wal-Ihssan, since it became a major player in 2011 protests that forced limited political reforms in the North African kingdom.
Abdessalam Yassine, who died in 2013, formed the group in 1981. It is banned from formal politics, but is believed by analysts and diplomats to be the only opposition organization capable of mass mobilization in Morocco.
