The Wire joins hands with western govt funded RSF against NSO Group

Reporters Without Borders and two other journalists had filed a complaint with prosecutors in France against NSO Group over the Pegasus scandal and all others the investigation would identify. The RSF said in a statement, “Seventeen journalists from seven countries who were listed as potential or actual victims of Pegasus spyware have filed complaints with prosecutors in Paris, against NSO Group and all other persons the investigation will identify. RSF has also referred their cases to the United Nations.” RSF spokesperson Pauline Adès-Mével said, “The complaints filed by these journalists, who are from every continent, confirm the scale of the surveillance carried out with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.” “The investigation should identify all those involved, whether company executives or senior government officials in the countries concerned. And, finally, RSF is asking them to press the UN Human Rights Council to adopt an ad hoc mechanism to investigate and shed all possible light on the sale and use of spyware.” RSF is funded by US Government and other European states The RSF is heavily funded by western government institutions and government-backed organisations. RSF has shown a particularly extreme prejudice against Venezuela, portraying oligarch-owned right-wing media outlets and US-funded opposition groups that have actively participated in numerous violent coup attempts against the democratically elected socialist government as hapless victims of an autocratic regime.” Rituparna Chatterjee, a left-wing activist who headed the ‘Me Too’ campaign in India, is an RSF correspondent in the country as well.