Amnesty is already explaining itself and placing the blame on the media

The Israeli office of Amnesty published a statement the day before yesterday that Amnesty never claimed that the people on their list of 50,000 were wiretapped or that the list had anything to do with the Israeli company NSO. If the international press wrote otherwise, they cannot do anything about it. The news did not reach the stimulus threshold of the international press, only the Neokohn portal wrote about it in Hungary - the article was reviewed by pestisracok.hu.

The explanation appeared yesterday Israeli site Calcalist

The phone numbers are not directly related to NSO. According to Amnesty International, this is a list of numbers that may be of interest to NSO's clients, which are governments around the world, and are not necessarily directly linked to the Israeli company. Amnesty never called this list the »NSO Pegasus Spyware List«, although some media around the world may have done so.

The Indian press also interprets Amnesty's statement, as there the government was subjected to political attacks that were perhaps even sharper than what we experience here because of the suspicion .

The republicworld quotes Amnesty as follows:

Amnesty never called this list the »NSO Pegasus Spyware List«, although some media around the world may have done so. Amnesty and their investigative journalists and editors have made it very clear from the start that »this is a list of numbers that may be of interest to NSO clients«, and these are various governments around the world.

The Israeli journalist was asked whether the list was connected to the NSO or not. He replied that “it is connected, but not directly. But there are people on the list who have been observed with Pegasus.” Because of this, Amnesty issued statement

Amnesty International categorically stands by what was revealed by the Pegasus Project and that the data is undoubtedly linked to potential targets of the NSO group's Pegasus espionage program. The fake news spread on social media is designed to distract from the illegal targeting of journalists, activists and others, which has been exposed by the Pegasus Project.

As the only non-Indian or Hungarian portal, yahoo.com also reports on the case, and Amnesty's 180-degree turnaround within a day is a serious blow to Amnesty's credibility .

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