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Victims of spyware and a group of security experts have privately warned that a European parliament investigatory committee risks being thrown off course by an alleged \u201cdisinformation campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n

The warning, contained in a letter to MEPs signed by the victims, academics and some of the world\u2019s most renowned surveillance experts, followed news last week that two individuals accused of trying to discredit widely accepted evidence in spyware cases in Spain<\/a> had been invited to appear before the committee investigating abuse of hacking software.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe invitation to these individuals would impede the committee\u2019s goal of fact-finding and accountability and will discourage victims from testifying before the committee in the future,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n

It was signed by two people who have previously been targeted multiple times by governments using Pegasus: Carine Kanimba, the daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, who is in prison in Rwanda, and the Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi. Other signatories included Access Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales, and the Human Rights Foundation.<\/p>\n

One MEP said it appeared that Spain\u2019s \u201cnational interest\u201d was influencing the committee\u2019s inquiry.<\/p>\n

The invitation to one of the individuals \u2013 Jos\u00e9 Javier Olivas, a political scientist from Spain\u2019s Universidad Nacional de Educaci\u00f3n a Distancia \u2013 was rescinded but the other, to Gregorio Mart\u00edn from the University of Valencia, was not and he is expected to appear before the parliamentary panel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

At the centre of the controversy lies the European parliament\u2019s committee investigating the use of Pegasus, a powerful surveillance tool<\/a> used by governments around the world. Pegasus is made and licensed by NSO Group, an Israeli company that was blacklisted by the Biden administration last year, after the US said it had evidence that foreign governments had used its spyware to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics and embassy workers.<\/p>\n

Researchers at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and Amnesty International\u2019s Security Lab have documented its use in countries including Spain, Poland and Hungary.<\/p>\n

While their findings have been used and accepted as evidence in courts in the UK and the US, they have come under sustained attack in recent months by a small but vocal group of individuals who have sought to question the researchers\u2019 conclusions in ways dismissed as unfounded and conspiratorial by security experts.<\/p>\n

The letter accuses Olivas of engaging in a pattern of harassment against researchers, including by \u201cpromoting conspiracy theories and false claims about researchers\u201d, victims and institutions in more than 500 posts on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Olivas told the Guardian he rejected the accusations and had requested a formal explanation from the committee about his rescinded invitation. He also said he had complained to the president of the European parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that this case can be illustrative of the risk of instrumentalisation of a committee of inquiry by third parties with vested interests. It sets a dangerous precedent. Giving in to pressures from third parties to filter evidence before a hearing goes against the principles of any serious investigation,\u201d he said. He said he did not have any relationship with the current or previous Spanish governments.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00edn was invited as a \u201cpeer reviewer\u201d on a research paper experts said had frequently been promoted even though \u2013 the letter alleged \u2013 it contained basic technical errors and false statements about some Pegasus victims.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00edn said in an email to the Guardian he had been \u201churt\u201d by the letter seeking to disqualify him but that he was busy preparing his testimony and trying to be \u201cas positive as possible\u201d. He declined to respond to specific allegations raised in the letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely think there is a national influence on the work of the inquiry committee,\u201d said Saskia Bricmont, a Belgian MEP and member of the Greens\/European Free Alliance group. \u201cSpain is showing its national interest, but not just Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two people close to the parliamentary committee said it was not entirely clear why Olivas and Mart\u00edn had been invited, but that they believed their names had been put on a preliminary agenda by Spanish members of the centre-right European People\u2019s party (EPP) group. <\/p>\n

Juan Ignacio Zoido \u00c1lvarez, Spain\u2019s interior minister from 2016-18 at the height of the Catalan independence crisis and now the EPP\u2019s coordinator on the committee, declined to comment. An assistant to the MEP said he did not wish to interfere with the internal processes but that he would comment after Tuesday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n

Revelations about the use of the spyware in Spain \u2013 both against Catalan independence figures and central government ministers \u2013 have proliferated over recent years, prompting concerns over a lack of oversight and security and culminating in the dismissal six months ago of the country\u2019s spy chief.<\/p>\n

In June 2020, the Guardian and El Pa\u00eds reported that at least three senior pro-independence Catalan politicians had been told their phones had been targeted<\/a> using Pegasus.<\/p>\n

At the time, the Spanish government vehemently denied<\/a> targeting the Catalan independence movement, saying: \u201cThis government doesn\u2019t spy on its political opponents.\u201d The National Intelligence Centre (CNI), however, gave a more guarded answer, saying its work was overseen by Spain\u2019s supreme court and it always acted \u201cin full accordance with the legal system, and with absolute respect for the applicable laws\u201d.<\/p>\n

A report this year from Citizen Lab<\/a> alleged at least 63 people connected with the Catalan independence movement \u2013 including the current regional president, Pere Aragon\u00e8s \u2013 were targeted or infected with Pegasus. The report said lawyers, journalists and civil society activists were also targeted, and that almost all the incidents took place between 2017 and 2020.<\/p>\n

It also emerged that the phones of three of Spain\u2019s most senior politicians<\/a> \u2013 the prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, the defence minister, Margarita Robles, and the interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska \u2013 were in 2021 subjected to \u201cillicit\u201d and \u201cexternal\u201d targeting using Pegasus.<\/p>\n

Paz Esteban, the head of the CNI, reportedly confirmed to a congressional committee that the centre had spied on 18 members of the Catalan independence movement, including Aragon\u00e8s, with judicial approval. She was sacked shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n

Ron Deibert, the founder and head of the Citizen Lab, said in a statement to the Guardian that the committee\u2019s work was \u201ccrucial to shed light on abuses around the mercenary spyware market\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe respect the committee and its critical mission. Culpable governments, and their allies, may have a vested interest in ensuring those proceedings do not succeed. That is why it is so essential that the expert witnesses called to testify be uniformly credible. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case for this hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Spanish government did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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