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Journalist Hafsa Boutahar, who is suing her colleague Omar Radi for rape, has denounced the partiality and lack of support shown to her by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights, expressing her determination to go “to the end” of the trial. The journalist, at a press conference in Rabat on Wednesday, March 10, lambasted the […]
Reporters without Borders (RSF) has issued a very biased statement, to say the least, in which it arrogantly put itself in the place of the Moroccan justice and castigated a women complaining of sexual assault by journalist Omar Radi, who is also facing espionage charges. In an appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence […]
The call made by Amnesty International to put pressure on Moroccan authorities to free journalist Omar Radi is an offense to Morocco’s independent judiciary, said the Higher Judicial Council in a statement. The campaign launched by Amnesty International has been decried by independent rights activists who also castigated the London-based NGO for flouting the rights […]
Omar Radi’s case is the tip of the iceberg highlighting the widespread corruption among rights NGOs operating in Morocco and globally, said Foreign Policy News in a detailed Op-ed. To start with, Radi allowed Amnesty International to use his phone to settle scores with the Moroccan State and the Israeli spy software developer NSO. Amnesty […]
The department in charge of cyber security, an offshoot of the defense administration, rejected Amnesty’s allegations about a Moroccan journalist being snooped on by an Israeli software saying that Morocco has a national cyber security strategy. In an article on Arabic speaking Al Ahdath daily, the administration recalled that Amnesty fell short of presenting hard […]
Amnesty was led astray or rather chose to derail from defending human rights to defending a group that has a political agenda sugar coated in a human rights cover. In 2019, the group has put forward accusations according to which Moroccan authorities used Israeli-made spyware to snoop on self-proclaimed human rights defender Maati Munjib and […]
Amnesty International was dealt a hard blow as an Israeli court dismissed its lawsuit to ban Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group from exporting abroad its technology for “lack of evidence” in the case of Moroccan journalist Omar Radi, several international media reported on Monday. Israeli judge in the Tel Aviv district court, Rachel Lavi […]
Morocco said that Amnesty International has yet to provide hard evidence for its allegations on authorities spying on a journalist or else acknowledge its fault. “We, in the Moroccan government, are still insisting on receiving a copy of the report of scientific expertise that was adopted to make these unfounded accusations, or publishing it to […]
Morocco deplored the biased approach adopted by Amnesty International, which alleged Moroccan authorities spied on a journalist Omar Radi without being able to provide proof. Amnesty proceeded to an international defamation campaign mobilizing dozens of international papers which relayed the report without fact-checking to harm Morocco’s reputation, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said at a joint […]