‘Pegasus Is No Evidence Story’
- 22-Jul-2021
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The BJP on Thursday reacted, the story on the alleged snooping through Israeli spyware Pegasus is ‘concocted, fabricated and evidence-less’. The news reports based on it call for ‘defamation’.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, she alleged that the ‘fake’ list is like a collection of mobile numbers drawn from yellow pages and those have been used for ‘yellow journalism’. She was referring to news reports about the suspected snooping of people, including politicians and journalists, in India and several countries.
Amnesty International, however, said in a statement that it ‘categorically stands’ by the findings of the Pegasus Project and asserted that the data is irrefutably linked to potential targets of Israel-based NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.
The comments by Amnesty International came after some media reports quoting a few Israeli journalists said that the human rights group has claimed that it never said that the recently leaked phone numbers were specifically a list of numbers targeted by Pegasus spyware.
Lekhi told reporters that 10 countries have been named as places where this spyware was used and hit out at opposition parties, including the Congress and TMC, suggesting that rival parties other countries have not behaved the way they have in India.
