![]() ![]() He’s spoken out about facing harassment and surveillance. We turn to Morocco, where authorities have arrested the award-winning journalist, human rights activist Omar Radi on what press freedom advocates are calling “retaliatory charges.” Omar Radi reported on the role of the Moroccan state and big business in dispossessing farmers of their tribal lands. We feature our interview with Radi, which focuses in part on an Amnesty International report, published about one month before his arrest, that alleges Moroccan authorities hacked his phone using Pegasus spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group.ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. He is reportedly being held in a prison that is a COVID hot spot, and has not been allowed to have visits from his lawyer or his parents. Two weeks later, on July 29, last Wednesday, Moroccan authorities arrested him on what press freedom advocates call “retaliatory charges.” Now a court has charged Radi with undermining state security by receiving foreign funding and collaborating with foreign intelligence, and also charged him with rape. ![]() Editor’s Note on July 19, 2021: Moroccan journalist Omar Radi has been sentenced to six years in prison after what Amnesty International calls an “unfair trial.” Radi was one of the journalists and activists targeted by Pegasus spyware, as was recently exposed by Amnesty International and a consortium of journalists.Īward-winning journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi spoke to us from Casablanca on July 16.
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