“We start with the verdict”: Inside Morocco’s surveillance machine

This report documents the surveillance ecosystem that enables the Moroccan authorities to use repressive tactics to harass, discredit and ultimately silence human rights defenders. It outlines the role of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service, the Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire (DGST), in conducting surveillance operations against civil society.
These operations are often accompanied by smear campaigns in state-aligned media outlets. The techno-authoritarian practices used by the DGST, and documented in this report, have been facilitated and enabled by various corporate actors.
The report also contains a comprehensive analysis of the Pegasus spyware system, and how it has been used by Morocco to target human rights defenders and journalists, both inside Morocco and internationally.

Read full report here