Friday, 16 April 2021, 6:29 am
Geneva
- The Moroccan authorities have continued to detain
journalists Omar Al-Radi and Suleiman Al-Raissouni in
Oukacha prison in Casablanca, which led them to declare a
hunger strike to demand their release, the
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in a
statement expressing great concern over their health
condition.
The Prosecutor of the Court of First
Instance in Casablanca detained Omar Al-Radi, president of
the Le Desk magazine on July 29 last year. Al-Radi had been
summoned more than eight times within five weeks, during
which, he was interrogated for about 100 hours. These were
based on charges related to receiving foreign funding from