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Moroccan journalist and rights activist Omar Radi has been sentenced on appeal to six years in prison on espionage and rape charges. Radi, a 35-year-old freelance journalist known as a known vocal critic of the authorities, has insisted on his innocence throughout his two-year-long trial. “My only fault is to have demanded independent justice,” Radi said before the judge’s verdict on Thursday, to applause from supporters in the courtroom. Accused of undermining state security with “foreign financing” and of rape, Radi was initially sentenced last July. His trial began in 2020 just days after h…