The French justice system has decided to follow up on the defamation complaints filed by Morocco against, among others, Forbidden Stories, Le Monde, Radio France, Mediapart and Amnesty International, who accused it of using the Israeli Pegasus software for espionage purposes. The Paris court will examine the admissibility of the prosecutions on December 6.
The lawyer mandated by Morocco in the Pegasus affair launched a few days ago a procedure which gave ten days to Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories to transmit the evidence of their accusations . The ten days have elapsed and the expected evidence could not be transmitted, according to Me Olivier Baratelli, lawyer for Morocco.
Accused of spying on foreign personalities, Morocco is multiplying actions to dismantle these accusations described as a "conspiracy against the stability of the kingdom" . After legal attacks for defamation, Morocco has decided to call on the services of a recognized computer expert whose role will be to expose the conspiracy behind the espionage allegations.
The head of the Moroccan government spoke out on the Pegasus affair during a television program. El Othmani denounced the organizations Forbidden Stories, Amnesty International and the media consortium publisher of the controversial study on the Pegasus software, which, according to him, are targeting Morocco .
Accused of having wiretapped foreign personalities and journalists, Morocco has hired lawyer Olivier Baratelli, mandated to file a [complaint against Amnesty International and Forbbiden Stories]. On Thursday evening on BFM TV, the latter categorically stated that "Morocco has never had any contractual or commercial ties with the NSO company", the supplier of the Pegasus spyware.
Six associations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW), representing victims of police violence and discrimination, have decided to attack the French state on racial profiling. They have just seized the Council of State.
Morocco has decided to file a defamation lawsuit in Paris against Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories, the source of the espionage allegations against the kingdom.
Morocco used the Pegasus software to spy on Moroccan, Algerian and French journalists. This is revealed by an investigation conducted by Forbidden Stories and its partners, including Amnesty International.
In Ceuta, there have been multiple scenes of forced expulsions and violence committed by the Spanish security forces in recent days, who throw migrants, including many vulnerable children, into the sea. This is at least the denunciation made by Amnesty International Spain.
Gathered within the SNJ, the SNJ-CGT and the CFDT-Journalists, Moroccan journalists called in the middle of the week for the release of two colleagues who have been held in pre-trial detention for nearly a year. Omar Radi and Slimane Raissouni, awaiting their trial, have started a hunger strike to obtain provisional release.
Moroccan historian and human rights defender Maati Monjib was sentenced to one year in prison for "fraud" and "undermining state security". His support committee, which denounces an "unjust and vengeful verdict", demands his immediate release.
The court of first instance in Rabat sentenced, on Thursday, historian and human rights defender Maâti Monjib to 12 months in prison and a fine of 10,000 dirhams, for undermining state security, money laundering and fraud.