How Morocco Used a Web of Surveillance to Silence Journalists & Activists
Amnesty says 103 phone numbers were matched to potential Pegasus targets, including 65 civil society members and 22 journalists.
- Amnesty International released a report identifying the Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire as responsible for deploying Pegasus spyware against journalists and activists, contradicting Morocco's previous official denials of surveillance operations.
- A former DGST employee known as Safir detailed the agency's expansive surveillance apparatus in interviews conducted over several years, revealing how authorities use diverse tools to monitor, discredit, and silence critical voices within and beyond Morocco.
- The investigation matched 103 Moroccan phone numbers to targeted individuals, including 65 civil society members comprising 34 human rights defenders, 22 journalists, five lawyers, and four academics selected as potential Pegasus targets.
- Secretary General Agnés Callamard said Morocco has "wholly embraced techno-authoritarian practices," urging authorities to immediately end unlawful surveillance and calling for an independent investigation into all reported abuses.
- Morocco acquired surveillance technology from vendors in Israel, the United States, and France, establishing a repressive system that Amnesty International claims extends its reach across international borders.
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Allegations of the excessive use of surveillance technology against dissident voices in Morocco add up to an unprecedented chapter. Amnesty International has released a detailed report this Thursday describing the existence of a complex state control apparatus designed to track, intimidate and imprison independent activists, lawyers and journalists both within and outside its borders.
Amnesty International accused Morocco on Thursday of establishing a "surveillance ecosystem" to "silence" journalists and human rights defenders through spyware, but also filming them without their knowledge, even in their own homes. For its report, the London-based organization claims to have relied on the testimony of a former staff member of the Directorate-General for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), on leaked documents and journalistic inve…
Amnesty International has accused the Moroccan authorities of setting up a widespread surveillance network targeting journalists and human rights defenders, including using spyware and hidden video recordings. Allegations of surveillance According to a report released today by the organization, the targets were even monitored in their homes. Amnesty International said the report was based on revelations from a former employee of the Directorate …
Authorities in the Kingdom of Morocco have been using the Pegasus spyware to monitor journalists, activists and politicians, Amnesty International has alleged. The post Morocco: “Surveillance ecosystem” of journalists and activists, Amnesty International has alleged appeared first on in.gr.
How Morocco used a web of surveillance to silence journalists & activists
Authorities in Morocco operate an expansive and vast surveillance apparatus that combines digital and analogue tools to track, monitor and ultimately silence journalists, activists and other critical voices, Amnesty International said in a new report. We start with the verdict: Inside Morocco’s surveillance machine reveals how Moroccan authorities use unlawful surveillance to target human rights […]
Morocco Used Spyware on Activists, Journalists, Report Says
Moroccan authorities have used spyware for years against critics in the country and overseas, including French and Spanish politicians, according to a new report from Amnesty International, which is based on leaked documents and testimony from a former Moroccan intelligence official.
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