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North American lawyers specializing in handling cybersecurity cases highlighted, Saturday in Tangier, the legal inadmissibility of the “pseudo-evidence” contained in reports by Citizen Lab, Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories regarding the alleged use of Pegasus software by some countries. This came at a hearing organized by Morocco’s Personal Data Protection Committee (CNDP) with the participation […]
A new detailed report by a US spyware and malware researcher has deflated the espionage allegations claiming that Morocco had used the Pegasus spyware. Spyware and malware researcher Jonathan Scott has published a new detailed report, debunking allegations and claims targeting Morocco on its alleged use of Pegasus spyware. In his report published on Saturday, […]
Nineteen months after Morocco, victim of a “gigantic international destabilization enterprise”, filed a complaint against some French media and NGOs, which accused it of having used the spyware “Pegasus”, “no evidence has been provided to date”, Olivier Baratelli, lawyer of the Kingdom in France, said Friday in Paris. Speaking at a press conference on the […]
A European Parliament’s fact-finding mission on the Pegasus spyware case revealed after investigations in Israel and contacts with NSO company which developed the spyware, that the company had sealed contracts with 22 customers in 12 countries of the 27-member European Union. These findings show that the Pegasus affair relayed in 2021 by several international NGOs […]
Morocco will initiate legal actions in Spanish courts for repeated publication and dissemination in Spain of false, malicious and defamatory allegations against the Kingdom, in connection with “an alleged illegal espionage of Spanish citizens”. “The Kingdom of Morocco has never acquired or used the program called Pegasus. The recent information published on this issue is […]
Amnesty and Forbidden stories should apologize for their slander campaign against Morocco after the end of a ten-day deadline to provide evidence for their espionage accusations. Morocco was targeted by a hideous campaign by a media consortium led by French Le Monde, the Guardian and Washington Post accusing Rabat of espionage using spyware Pegasus but […]
Morocco filed, on Monday in Germany, a request for an injunction against the “Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH” publishing company for “false allegations in connection with a coverage on the alleged use of Pegasus spyware by the Kingdom of Morocco”. According to the request, filed by Morocco, represented by its ambassador in Berlin Zohour Alaoui, “Süddeutsche […]
Morocco, accused of having used Pegasus spy software, is increasing the number of legal defamation proceedings in France against the media having published such accusations. On July 22, Morocco launched a first libel proceeding against Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories, which orchestrated the release of false press reports, accusing Rabat of conducting electronic snooping with […]
Moroccan ambassador to Paris Chakib Benmoussa has denounced the attempts orchestrated by networks hostile to Morocco in France and elsewhere seeking to destabilize the Kingdom and denied any spying on President Emmanuel Macron or any members of the French Government. “Morocco did not spy on President Emmanuel Macron. It did not spy on the former […]
Any person or organization accusing Morocco must provide evidence, or assume their slanderous denunciation in court, said on Thursday Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in connection with the persistent media campaign on an alleged infiltration of the phones of several national and foreign public figures through a spyware. “Justice is there precisely to verify the […]