In Morocco, journalists, human rights defenders and activists increasingly face harassment, censorship, torture and imprisonment simply for expressing their opinion.
In Morocco, journalists, human rights defenders and activists increasingly face harassment, censorship, torture and imprisonment simply for expressing their opinion.
In Morocco, journalists, human rights defenders and activists increasingly face harassment, censorship, torture and imprisonment simply for expressing their opinion. We look at the case of Omar Radi, an award-winning investigative Moroccan journalist who faces a year in prison for a single tweet. Last April he condemned a judge in Casablanca who imposed long prison terms on leaders of protests in the country’s Rif region. The activists were sentenced largely based on statements that they said after allegedly being tortured by police. We speak with Radi before he returns to Morocco in anticipation of a hearing scheduled for March 5.