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Four conservationists convicted of espionage in Iran have been released after six years in jail. They were arrested in 2018 after being accused of spying while working to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah. Their conviction in 2019 was condemned around the world by conservationists, scientists and human rights organisations. The group, which worked with the nonprofit Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), includes Niloufar Bayani - an Iranian wildlife researcher and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) consultant - and environmental activists Houman Jowkar, Taher Ghadirian and Sepideh Kashan...
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Austria is facing its biggest espionage scandal in decades as the arrest of a former intelligence officer brings to light evidence of extensive Russian infiltration. The suspect in question is Egisto Ott, who was arrested March 29. The 86-page warrant for his arrest, which was obtained by the Associated Press, alleges among other things that he handed over mobile phone data of former high-ranking Austrian officials to Russian intelligence, helped plot a burglary at a prominent journalist's apartment, and wrote up “suggestions for improvement” after a Russian-ordered killing in Germany. Ott is ...
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Poland has dismissed the Polish commander of the European rapid reaction military unit, the Eurocorps, amid a recently launched military counterintelligence investigation involving him, authorities said Wednesday. A Polish Defense Ministry statement said that new information regarding Lt. Gen. Jarosław R. Gromadziński had been revealed and an investigation into his security clearance had been launched. Gromadziński was ordered to urgently return from the Eurocorps' headquarters in Strasbourg, France, and a replacement will be appointed immediately, the ministry said. No further details were pr...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is bracing for a decisive court ruling in the United Kingdom that will decide whether he is to be extradited to the United States on spying charges. The High Court of London is expected to make a judgement on Tuesday (March 26) on whether to allow or block the 52-year-old's extradition to the US, where he faces 18 counts of espionage for publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents in 2010 related to the US military’s conduct during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The Australian journalist and ethical hacker has been held at Belmarsh prison in the ...
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Two Russian citizens suspected of spying on behalf of Moscow were banned from entering the European Union by Bulgarian authorities on Monday. The two were identified by Bulgaria’s agency for national security as Vladimir Nikolayevich Gorochkin, 39, and Tatiana Anatolievna Gorochkina, 37. They will be banned from EU entry for five years. The agency said that the couple were part of an operation orchestrated by Moscow's Foreign Intelligence Service trying to infiltrate foreign countries under false identities. According to Bulgarian authorities, the couple had lived undetected in the country und...
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A parliamentary commission - dubbed the Pegasus and Illegal Surveillance Committee - will begin investigating the alleged use of such surveillance technology by the country's past rulers. The use of Pegasus spyware by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) - which was ousted in elections last year - appears to be much wider than initially suspected. But the right-wing party denies this. Watch the full report in the player above.
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