PACE hearing on the alleged use of Pegasus and similar spyware, including in Serbia

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A PACE parliamentary hearing following up on the topic "Pegasus and similar spyware and secret State surveillance” - focusing on the alleged use of such spyware in Serbia and Spain - was livestreamed on 3 March 2025.

Participants at the hearing, held in Paris by the Assembly's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights as part of a report on this topic by Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), included:

• Iain Cameron, Member of the Venice Commission (Sweden), Rapporteur for its “Report on a rule of law and human rights compliant regulation of spyware”, adopted on 6-7 December 2024 (online)
  
• Andreu Van den Eynde, lawyer, Spain
  
• Dušan Pokuševski, Program Director at the Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Serbia
  
• Milena Berić, Executive Director of the Association KROKODIL, Serbia
  

In a December 2024 statement, the PACE monitor for Serbia Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) expressed deep concern at recent revelations concerning the surveillance of Serbian journalists and activists by Serbian police and intelligence services: https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9728/pace-m...-activists