European Parliament calls on Commission to clarify if Spain is able to use Pegasus spyware
EU chamber also censures Israel for impeding the investigation into the use of Pegasus in Spain.
New Internationalist
Spies, damned spies
Bethany Rielly explores the chilling impact of the Spanish state’s intrusive surveillance tactics against Catalan civil society. Is there a chance of justice?
PACE
Five member states must investigate spyware abuse, says PACE
Citing “mounting evidence” that spyware has been used for illegitimate purposes by several Council of Europe member states, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has urged five …
Catalan News
European Parliament urges Spain for an ‘effective and fair’ investigation on ‘Catalangate’
Clarifying espionage on 65 pro-independence leaders and involving Europol in report approved by MEPs
El Nacional
Catalan language NGO tells Belgian court that it was spied on by Spain with Pegasus software
New breaches of the rights of Catalan people and groups. Members of the pro-Catalan language organization Plataforma per la Llengua have testified in a Belgian court that they were spied on by …
The Catalan National Assembly appears as a witness before the Catalan parliament’s Committee of inquiry into the Catalangate affair
Assemblea’s President Dolors Feliu denounced that six members of the organization are victims of the Catalangate espionage for their pro-independence activism, and recalled the repeated failure of the dialogue table …
The European Pegasus Committee criticises there were no court orders for most of the Catalan espionage victims and that national security has been used to avoid disclosing information
The Pegasus Inquiry Committee of the European Parliament has denounced that there is no evidence of judicial proceedings against the majority of the Catalan espionage victims, in a press conference …
The Catalan National Assembly denounces Spain’s boycott of the European Parliament Pegasus Committee and asks them to meet with victims of civil society
The letter addressed to the Pegasus Inquiry Committee of the European Parliament denounces the Spanish authorities’ attempts to prevent and hinder the fact-finding trip to Spain and call the members …
El Nacional
PSOE, PP, Cs and Vox want to remove Catalangate references from EU report on Pegasus
Spanish political parties PSOE, the PP, Cs and Vox are all presenting amendments to the European Parliament’s draft report on Pegasus espionage to remove references to the 65 Catalans with links to the …
El Nacional
European Commission: “National security” claims don’t give carte blanche to state espionage
EU commissioner answers the Catalan MEPs questions, noting that the EC is “closely following” the Pegasus inquiry committee