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Morocco has filed defamation claims against Amnesty International and a French NGO who claim its intelligence services used the Pegasus mobile phone spyware against dozens of French journalists, lawyers for the government said Thursday.

Amnesty International said today it "categorically stands by Pegasus Project findings" and rejected "false rumours pushed on social media".

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma called on the centre to ban Amnesty International from operating in India, accusing it of conspiring to "defame PM Modi".

Researchers at Amnesty International have developed a tool to let you identify whether NSO’s Pegasus spyware has targeted your iPhone or Android phone. It, however, currently requires some basic command line knowledge.

Pegasus zero-click attacks via iMessage have been used to install spyware on iPhone units, Amnesty reveals in its latest investigation. Amnesty International says that it was able to confirm that thousands of iPhone handsets were listed as potential targets for Pegasus spyware, though it was not possible to confirm how many were successfully hacked...

Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents, according to an investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data.

Hong Kong's national security law has created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International said Wednesday, a year after China imposed it on the city to crush a pro-democracy movement.

An Egyptian court Tuesday convicted a university student to four years in prison for "spreading false news", rights groups said, in a sentence Amnesty International labelled "outrageous".

Amnesty International on Thursday urged Iraq to reveal the whereabouts of 643 Sunni Muslim boys and men abducted five years ago by Shiite paramilitaries fighting the Islamic State (IS) group.

The Enforcement Directorate has attached the movable properties - worth Rs 17.66 crore - of the global human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, which had last year claimed that it was winding down its India operation because of alleged "witch-hunt" by the central government.

Rich countries have secured enough coronavirus vaccines to protect their populations nearly three times over by the end of 2021, Amnesty International and other groups said on Wednesday, possibly depriving billions of people in poorer areas.

Facebook and Google are fast becoming "human rights-free zones" in Vietnam, Amnesty International warned, accusing the tech titans of helping censor peaceful dissent and political expression in the country.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Union Home Secretary over rights organisation Amnesty International winding up its operations in the country after alleging "witch-hunt" by the government, officials said on Wednesday.

Hours after Amnesty International declared it would halt operations in India and alleged a witch-hunt over its recent reports raising questions on rights violations, the government said "human rights cannot be an excuse to defy the law of the land" and "glossy statements about humanitarian work" were an attempt to divert attention from their illega...

Amnesty International has halted its operations in India and said it had to let go of its staff after its accounts were frozen earlier this month as part of what it called a "witch-hunt" by the government over its adverse reports.

Morocco has filed defamation claims against Amnesty International and a French NGO who claim its intelligence services used the Pegasus mobile phone spyware against dozens of French journalists, lawyers for the government said Thursday.

Amnesty International said today it "categorically stands by Pegasus Project findings" and rejected "false rumours pushed on social media".

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma called on the centre to ban Amnesty International from operating in India, accusing it of conspiring to "defame PM Modi".

Researchers at Amnesty International have developed a tool to let you identify whether NSO’s Pegasus spyware has targeted your iPhone or Android phone. It, however, currently requires some basic command line knowledge.

Pegasus zero-click attacks via iMessage have been used to install spyware on iPhone units, Amnesty reveals in its latest investigation. Amnesty International says that it was able to confirm that thousands of iPhone handsets were listed as potential targets for Pegasus spyware, though it was not possible to confirm how many were successfully hacked...

Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents, according to an investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data.

Hong Kong's national security law has created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International said Wednesday, a year after China imposed it on the city to crush a pro-democracy movement.

An Egyptian court Tuesday convicted a university student to four years in prison for "spreading false news", rights groups said, in a sentence Amnesty International labelled "outrageous".

Amnesty International on Thursday urged Iraq to reveal the whereabouts of 643 Sunni Muslim boys and men abducted five years ago by Shiite paramilitaries fighting the Islamic State (IS) group.

The Enforcement Directorate has attached the movable properties - worth Rs 17.66 crore - of the global human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, which had last year claimed that it was winding down its India operation because of alleged "witch-hunt" by the central government.

Rich countries have secured enough coronavirus vaccines to protect their populations nearly three times over by the end of 2021, Amnesty International and other groups said on Wednesday, possibly depriving billions of people in poorer areas.

Facebook and Google are fast becoming "human rights-free zones" in Vietnam, Amnesty International warned, accusing the tech titans of helping censor peaceful dissent and political expression in the country.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Union Home Secretary over rights organisation Amnesty International winding up its operations in the country after alleging "witch-hunt" by the government, officials said on Wednesday.

Hours after Amnesty International declared it would halt operations in India and alleged a witch-hunt over its recent reports raising questions on rights violations, the government said "human rights cannot be an excuse to defy the law of the land" and "glossy statements about humanitarian work" were an attempt to divert attention from their illega...

Amnesty International has halted its operations in India and said it had to let go of its staff after its accounts were frozen earlier this month as part of what it called a "witch-hunt" by the government over its adverse reports.