Moroccan intelligence uses surveillance to ‘silence’ journalists: Amnesty

• Probe finds spyware, hidden microphones and pre-infected phones used to surveil journalists, activists, rights defenders.
• Amnesty International has denounced Morocco’s intelligence agency for using spyware, hidden microphones and pre-infected phones in the “unlawful surveillance” of journalists and human rights defenders.
• Moroccan authorities host an “expansive and vast” surveillance apparatus that they use to “ultimately silence journalists, activists and other critical voices”, the rights NGO said in a report published on Thursday.