Scandal-hit former king returns to Spain after 2 years
prosecutors there said they discovered he received $100 million from the Saudi finance ministry in 2008 before he stepped down as king. The investigation also turned up millions more received …
Assemblea denounces Spain’s Catalangate illegal espionage case before the OSCE
The Catalan National Assembly has taken part in a new edition of the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna, which on this occasion focused on the need to respect …
The Guardian
Use of Pegasus spyware on Spain’s politicians causing ‘crisis of democracy
The use of Pegasus spyware to target Catalan independence leaders and Spanish politicians – including the prime minister – has plunged Spain into a “crisis of democracy” and national security that can …
Assemblea sues Spain’s intelligence and security forces for the illegal espionage of its members
The Catalan civil society organization, five of whose members were targeted by the Catalangate Pegasus espionage case, filed a lawsuit against Spanish authorities on Tuesday in a Barcelona court, for …
The Guardian
Spain’s spy chief sacked after Pegasus spyware revelations
The Spanish government has reportedly sacked the country’s spy chief Paz Esteban following revelations that the intelligence service hacked the phones of leading members of the Catalan independence movement, and …
Catalan News
Head of intelligence: court approved espionage of Catalan president and Puigdemont’s allies
The head of Spain’s intelligence agency (CNI), Paz Esteban, has admitted having spied on 18 out of the over 60 Catalan pro-independence figures that have been accredited as victims of the so-called …
Assemblea denounces Catalangate at United Nations Forum on Minority Issues
Assemblea President Elisenda Paluzie took part in the United Nations Europe and Central Asia Regional Forum 2022 to denounce the latest Spanish state’s use of the Pegasus spyware against the …
UNPO
Catalan Civil Society Targeted With Pegasus Spyware
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) firmly condemns the Government of The Spanish government’s alleged use of Pegasus spyware to undermine and repress Catalan civil society. These allegations of espionage represent a disconcerting continuation of long-standing …
Washington Post
Democracies shouldn’t surrender to a future of limitless surveillance
Ronan Farrow reports for the New Yorker that NSO’s much-publicized links to repressive governments are only half the story. Germany uses the firm’s ultra-intrusive Pegasus tool; so does Poland; so does Belgium, …
Catalan pro-independence movement denounces Spain’s illegal espionage before the European Parliament
65 top representatives and activists of Catalonia’s pro-independence movement have been illegally spied on, according to independent research center Citizen Lab, in what is the biggest Pegasus spyware case in …