Moroccan journalists recount years of surveillance amid new Amnesty claim

By Al Jazeera staff. Published On 6 Oct 20266 Oct 2026.

What happened

Rabat, Morocco – "I was surveilled not since of a specific article. I was investigating land dispossession in Morocco. I then learned I was a Pegasus target, " Omar Radi, a journalist and human rights defender, informed Al Jazeera, referring to the mobile surveillance tool developed by Israeli business NSO Group.

When Amnesty International Security Lab examined his phone, the findings emerged in June 2020. Radi, now based in Germany, remarked he had spent two years, from 2018 to 2020, noticing signs including his phone's battery draining swiftly, its temperature rising and the network slowing down.

The bottom line

Taken together, the developments around moroccan journalists recount years of surveillance amid new Amnesty claim point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.