1/17/2024 0 Comments Omar radi amnestyOn 24 June, the Moroccan prosecutor’s office announced it had opened an investigation into Radi on suspicion that he had received “funds from abroad in connection with intelligence services”. This was the time between revelations by Amnesty International on 22 June that he had been targeted by spyware of the NSO security firm (available only to governments) and the first espionage allegation against him. He was honoured by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2015 and the following year published data that led to the “servants of the state” scandal, implicating influential public figures in Morocco. In 2013, his investigation into Moroccan sand quarries, which exposed the lack of transparency in the licensing system won the AMJI investigative journalism award at the. He has co-directed a documentary on the Hirak protests in the northern Rif region and has worked for a number of Moroccan and international media organizations, investigating such subjects as corruption, the rentier economy, predatory landlords and collusion between the authorities and financial interests. Whatever the grounds for each of these cases, the timing of the complaints and the way the facts and figures have been assembled prove that he is the victim of judicial harassment.įor more than 10 years, Radi has been investigating sensitive subjects which have made him a target of the Moroccan regime. The 34-year-old activist, due to go on trial on 22 September, has been held in custody since 29 July accused of sexual assault and espionage.
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