Having worked on Israel/Palestine human rights issues over the years and protected organisations who have been targeted by Israeli private/state intelligence due to their work. Here are just a few other methods our organisation has seen used against well respected human rights defenders (all of these are confirmed by the way, not speculation):
-Sending people to their homes claiming to sell paintings, usually in order to fix their location, get current pictures of them, ask neighbours questions, scope their homes and/or offices etc.
-Sending of verbal and written death threats. Calls on phone, stuff sent in the post.
-Covert entry operations against individual's homes and/or offices
-Following and open photography of human rights defenders (living in European cities) and their children in parks and outside schools.
-Pictures or knowledge of their children, schools etc sent to them.
-Smear campaigns design to make them look like terrorists (even through they were human rights defenders / lawyers) sent to people in their community. Designed to make them either look radical or in some cases attack them on a personal level (sexual in a conservative community). Sometimes this included organised protests against offices based upon totally false representation.
-Overt and covert physical surveillance of them as they travelled to and from their place of work and home.
-Doxing of their personal details online so people knew where they lived and called
-Threats made to them based upon knowledge that likely could only have been gathered through bugging and in other cases insider threats.
-Attempts to entrap individuals with online conversations (personal/sexual information etc)
-Abuse of flight stop lists and other measures to prevent people doing their work and travel.
-Abuse of bank, company, charity, data protection complaints etc to try to harass them in their work
-Abuse of medical healthcare (e.g allowing relatives who live in Gaza to travel to get urgent cancer/heart treatment) to pressure individuals to stop investigating human rights abuses.
-Sending of fake journalists etc as send above.
-Malware etc as above. Also DDoS, orchestrated campaigns online etc
-Sending people to their homes claiming to sell paintings, usually in order to fix their location, get current pictures of them, ask neighbours questions, scope their homes and/or offices etc.
-Sending of verbal and written death threats. Calls on phone, stuff sent in the post.
-Covert entry operations against individual's homes and/or offices
-Following and open photography of human rights defenders (living in European cities) and their children in parks and outside schools.
-Pictures or knowledge of their children, schools etc sent to them.
-Smear campaigns design to make them look like terrorists (even through they were human rights defenders / lawyers) sent to people in their community. Designed to make them either look radical or in some cases attack them on a personal level (sexual in a conservative community). Sometimes this included organised protests against offices based upon totally false representation.
-Overt and covert physical surveillance of them as they travelled to and from their place of work and home.
-Doxing of their personal details online so people knew where they lived and called
-Threats made to them based upon knowledge that likely could only have been gathered through bugging and in other cases insider threats.
-Attempts to entrap individuals with online conversations (personal/sexual information etc)
-Abuse of flight stop lists and other measures to prevent people doing their work and travel.
-Abuse of bank, company, charity, data protection complaints etc to try to harass them in their work
-Abuse of medical healthcare (e.g allowing relatives who live in Gaza to travel to get urgent cancer/heart treatment) to pressure individuals to stop investigating human rights abuses.
-Sending of fake journalists etc as send above.
-Malware etc as above. Also DDoS, orchestrated campaigns online etc