April 18, 2019: Omar Radi is summoned to the Brigade Nationale de Police Judiciaire (BNPJ) for a tweet criticizing the heavy sentences against Rif activists.
December 25, 2019: Omar Radi is taken into custody over the tweet.
December 31, 2019: Omar Radi is released following a national and international mobilization.
March 17, 2020: Omar Radi is given a four-month suspended prison sentence in the same case.
April 7, 2020: Following his support for journalist Souleiman Raissouni, Omar Radi is the target of a smear campaign by media outlets close to the Moroccan security services.
June 14, 2020: Omar Radi is accused by the same press of doing intelligence on behalf of foreign countries.
June 22, 2020: Amnesty International publishes an investigation that claims that Omar Radi’s mobile phone was attacked via the Pegasus software developed by the Israeli group NSO.
June 25, 2020: The Prosecutor General of the Casablanca Court of Appeal opens an investigation into the journalist’s alleged involvement in a case of obtaining foreign funding in connection with intelligence services.
June 25, 2020: Omar Radi’s first summons to BNPJ headquarters.
July 2, 2020: A Moroccan government press conference violates the secrecy of the investigation by revealing that a journalist was the subject of a judicial investigation for “alleged breach of state security” and “links with a liaison officer of a foreign country”.
July 2, 2020: Second summons of Omar Radi to BNPJ headquarters.
July 5, 2020: Arrest of Omar Radi and his colleague Imad Stitou outside a restaurant in Casablanca following an altercation with an employee of the Chouf TV website.
July 6, 2020: Omar Radi and Imad Stitou leave the police station, charged with “drunkenness on the public road” and “video recording of a person against his will”.
July 8, 2020: Omar Radi’s third summons to BNPJ headquarters. • July 13, 2020: Omar Radi’s fourth summons to BNPJ headquarters.
July 15, 2020: Omar Radi’s fifth summons to BNPJ headquarters.
July 17, 2020: Omar Radi’s sixth summons to BNPJ headquarters. • July 20, 2020: Omar Radi’s seventh summons at BNPJ headquarters.
July 23, 2020: An accusation is filed to the King’s Attorney General’s office of the Casablanca Court of Appeal against Omar Radi on rape charges.
July 25, 2020: Omar Radi’s eighth summons to BNPJ headquarters.
July 27, 2020: Omar Radi summons to the Gendarmerie Royale brigade in Casablanca.
July 28, 2020: Omar Radi’s ninth summons to BNPJ headquarters.
July 29, 2020: Omar Radi’s tenth summons to BNPJ headquarters.
July 29, 2020: The investigating judge of the Casablanca Court of Appeal decides the detention and prosecution of Omar Radi for “undermining the internal and external security of the State and rape and molestation”.
September 22, 2020: Next hearing scheduled before the Investigating Judge.
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