Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance

Amendment No. 11 | Doc. 15825 | 10 October 2023

Signatories:

Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU, Cyprus, SOC ; Mr Paul GAVAN, Ireland, UEL ; Mr Max LUCKS, Germany, SOC ; Mr Simon MOUTQUIN, Belgium, SOC ; Mr Stefan SCHENNACH, Austria, SOC

Origin

2023 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 5.1, replace the words "has been illegally deployed for political purposes to spy on journalists, opposition politicians, lawyers, prosecutors and civil society actors, apparently as part of a system or an integrated strategy" with the following words:

"has been allegedly illegally deployed for political purposes to spy on journalists, opposition politicians, lawyers, prosecutors and civil society actors, apparently as part of a system or an integrated strategy. In parallel with Pegasus, in Poland, traditional surveillance methods have been allegedly unlawfully used to spy on civic activists and opposition politicians within state-owned hotels of the Polish Hotel Holding"