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Moroccan journalist and rights activist Omar Radi was transferred from a Casablanca prison to a jail further north, his father said Saturday, decrying a “hardening” of his son’s incarceration conditions. Accused of espionage and rape, Radi, a freelance journalist and a vocal critic of the authorities, was sentenced on appeal to six years in prison last month. He maintained his innocence throughout his two-year-long trial. Idris Radi said his son’s transfer to the Tifelt prison, some 150 kilometres (95 miles) from the Casablanca facility where he had been detained, was a sign of a “hardening of…