Belgian Constitutional Court Greenlights Prisoner Exchange With Iran
Last January, Belgian NGO worker Olivier Vandecasteele was sentenced to 40 years in prison on what Brussels has declared as ‘sham’ espionage charges.
Last January, Belgian NGO worker Olivier Vandecasteele was sentenced to 40 years in prison on what Brussels has declared as ‘sham’ espionage charges.
An Iranian court ruled that Vandecasteele had engaged in spying for the U.S. government, currency smuggling, and money laundering; charges which he and his government deny.
In his speech to the nation, PM Mitsotakis attempted damage control by calling the phone-tapping legal, but wrong.
The arrest follows the announcement that several spies affiliated with Mossad have also been arrested recently, as well as that of two French nationals last May on charges of organising protests in Iran.
The Israel-based NSO Group is the maker of Pegasus, a spyware that can infiltrate smartphones and other devices, extract information from them, and even control their functions such as turning on a camera.
Suspecting that the five cases of spying on Catalans revealed by WhatsApp only scratched the surface, Elies Campo turned to The Citizen Lab, where he led the investigation that discovered approximately sixty more cases of spying with Pegasus.
Germany’s highly politicized domestic intelligence agency has been given the green-light to conduct mass surveillance against the non-conformist, anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a move which is being viewed as a circuitous attempt to stigmatize and destroy the party.
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