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Meenakshi Lekhi had claimed that Pegasus has falsified the list of spy numbers going viral in the media. -file photo
International human rights organization Amnesty International has rejected the BJP’s claim that Amnesty International does not believe the connection of the phone list with the Israeli NSO. In fact, on Thursday, in a press conference, the BJP had called the Pegasus Project investigation as fake news and claimed that Amnesty International itself has said that the numbers which have been kept in the suspicious list of espionage, are directly related to the Israeli company NSO Group. There is no relation.
Investigation data linked to NSO – Amnesty
Now Amnesty issued a statement and said – We reject the rumors and false media reports. We certainly stand by this investigation. Amnesty International is with the facts revealed in the Pegasus Project Investigation. The Pegasus Project data is definitely linked to the NSO Group’s Pegasus spy list. In this regard, rumors are being spread on social media in order to debunk the investigation of the Pegasus Project, which revealed that journalists, activists and others around the world are being unfairly targeted for espionage.
Lekhi had said – the list that came is not real
BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi held a press conference at the party headquarters. He said that Amnesty itself does not consider the list to be related to the Israeli company. Whatever list is coming in the media, it is not the real list. He had said that on the pretext of this list, efforts are being made to obstruct Parliament. Amnesty and NSO have already given their clarification in this regard. The protest that is taking place about this is to malign the name of India.
Information about 50 thousand numbers had reached Amnesty
- Paris-based non-profit journalism organizations Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International had access to information on more than 50,000 phone numbers selected as targets by NSO clients since 2016. These organizations have not given any information about when and how.
- Then he shared this information with 17 news organizations including the Guardian, Washington Post. Over 80 journalists from these media organizations worked on this data for the past few months. The work of coordination between them was that of Forbidden Stories.
- 50 thousand numbers belong to those people who have been spied on by the government customers of NSO since 2016. It was NSO who sold the surveillance license of Pegasus to him. The data contains only the time and date when these numbers were selected for monitoring or entered into the system.
- On the basis of the data, after extracting samples of some numbers, the journalists of the group took mobile phones from the targets. Forensic examination of his handset was done by Amnesty’s security lab, which became the technical partner in this project.
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