Moroccan journalist Omar Radi summoned by police days after Israeli spyware allegations

Moroccan journalist Omar Radi was summoned, Wednesday, to the police days after an investigation by Amnesty International alleged that he had been targeted with an Israeli-made spyware.

Radi wrote on his Twitter account that he will appear, Thursday, before the National Brigade of Judicial Police (BNPJ). The journalist published a photo of the summon with a caption saying : «I will be there tomorrow».

Alerte : j'ai reçu une convocation écrite de la part de la Brigade nationale de la police judiciaire (BNPJ). Je m'y rendrai demain matin. pic.twitter.com/hLuSOcdqQc

— Omar Radi (@OmarRADI) June 24, 2020

The royal public prosecutor at Casablanca’s court of appeal said in a statement that Radi had been summoned for «being a suspect of obtaining funds from foreign sources related to intelligence groups».

For the record, the Moroccan authorities arrested Omar Radi on December 26, 2019, because of a critical tweet published in April. On March 17, he was sentenced to a four-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 500 dirhams.