4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Omar Radi is working in dangerous circumstances. His journalism is exposing how tribal lands are being snatched away from inhabitants in Morocco, only to be sold off at exorbitant rates. He knows this work is making him enemies… but he has no idea just how serious things will get.
Support Omar:
Sign the Amnesty International Ireland petition: https://www.amnesty.ie/urgent-action-morocco-stop-harassing-journalist-omar-radi/
Write to or tweet at your Moroccan Embassy, in the UK: https://www.moroccanembassylondon.org.uk/en/Contact%20us.html / @MOROCCOinUK
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0:52.9 | eight campaigners to be a Bertha |
0:55.1 | fellow. The Bertha Foundation was providing funding for journalists around the world to |
1:00.9 | spend a year investigating and reporting on housing and land issues in their country of origin. |
1:08.4 | We were a mixed bunch. I was looking at how the freeze in housing benefits in the UK was pushing people into homelessness. |
1:16.7 | Then there was satiris. |
1:18.3 | A data journalist based in Athens and co-founder of Athens Live, Greece's first non-profit media outlet. |
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1:30.3 | in the most vulnerable society. |
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