Police again detained Radi 29 July "on espionage and other charges that seem backed by scant evidence," the U.S.-based human rights organization Human Rights Watch reported. It reported Radi was being held at the Oukacha prison in Casablanca. [35] The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the Europe-based Bertha Foundation, a human rights group, reported that Radi’s arrest interrupted an investigation he was conducting, with funding from Bertha, on corrupt land expropriations in Morocco.[36] Moroccan authorities held a 15-minute hearing on Radi’s case on December 24, 2020, and he remained imprisoned thereafter.