A Moroccan journalist, profiled by the Star and 16 other international publications last month after his phone was hacked, has been arrested along with a colleague after a late-night altercation with a cameraman that Radi’s editor calls a set-up. Omar Radi and Imad Stitou, his colleague at the investigative online publication Le Desk, were arrested minutes after leaving a nightclub in Casablanca, according to an article published in Le Desk on ‪Monday morning‬. Shortly afterward, a police van arrived and arrested the Le Desk journalists, Le Desk wrote. “We must insist on the fact that what happened yesterday has all the attributes of an ambush,” said Ali Amar, editor of Le Desk. Since Amnesty’s report, the ChoufTV cameraman present at his arrest had filmed Radi entering and exiting both of his police interrogations.

Source: thestar July 06, 2020 20:11 UTC