That year, Omar Radi directed – with ATTAC Morocco – a documentary film on the subject, “Death Over Humilitation”, which tells the story the uprising of the inhabitants of the Al Hoceima region in the north of the country. In October 2017, his work on the protest movement of the Rif known as the “Hirak” lead to 48-hour police custody.That was all it took to set off what is believed to be a highly-sophisticated and nearly invisible cyber attack. The target had changed.Īround 1:00 p.m., Radi took out his phone to verify something on the internet. What he didn’t know, as he sat down to lunch with his friend on that sweltering day in 2019, was that it wasn’t him who should be concerned. That day Monjib was confident his phone was now secure. Developed by Israeli security firm NSO Group, the spyware called Pegasus allowed data to be extracted from the phone, but also - in true Orwellian fashion - for the camera and microphone to be remotely activated. A tip-off from human rights organization Amnesty International had alerted him to spyware installed regularly on his phone since 2018. Monjib was wary that the conversation might be monitored. The two friends hadn’t seen each other for several months, the former being embroiled in a seemingly endless legal case and the latter in a game of cat and mouse with the Moroccan authorities. Journalist Omar Radi met his friend Maati Monjib, a historian and human rights activist, for lunch. ![]() The scene - fit for a spy movie - took place in Casablanca at the end of summer 2019.
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