journalists and Mexican activists filed civil lawsuits in courts in Israel and Cyprus against the NSO Group company due to alleged negligence and complicity in espionage (#) Gobiernoespia) through the Pegasus malware, developed by the company.
Organizations such as the Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, article 19, Social ICT, the power of the consumer and the network in defense of digital rights (R3D) reported that legal actions are filed with three objectives: the first is to cease the provision of services of the NSO Group; the second, which the company accountable for its alleged complicity in the acts of espionage committed, and that the information derived from this process avoids that Mexican officials evaded justice.
Negligence and complicity of the NSO Group in acts of espionage with the Pegasus malware, activists, journalists and defenders of human rights Mexican sued the company. #GobiernoEspía https://t.co/OGTLqPEXRL – R3D (@R3Dmx) September 1, 2018
civil organizations claimed that more than one year that is destapara the case, “there is no evidence that NSO Group and its affiliates have stopped providing its services to” Governments with a proven track record of violations of human rights and corruption, as the Mexican”.
Even highlighted that they have been recently discovered new cases of espionage, now against Amnesty International workers, as well as people in the Middle East, as in the case of journalist Abdulaziz Alkhamis, former editor of the London newspaper to the Arab, according to a report of The New York Times.
“We remember that the outgoing Federal Government has remained unpunished case, concealing the Attorney-General of the officials responsible for,” published a statement where called on the new Government to resume research organizations , even by incorporating a panel of experts and independent experts.
After The New York Times revealed the campaign of espionage, allegedly committed by the Mexican Government, President Enrique Peña acknowledged that his Government had purchased the program and ordered a federal investigation into the possible misuse of Pegasus. To do this, Mexican officials said they would be asked support to the FBI.
However, US officials decided not to get involved, because they consider that the Government’s penalty could be using the participation of the United States with the intention of giving a semblance of credibility to the investigation ordered by the President.
