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Milena Berić (KROKODIL) and Dušan Pokuševski (BCHR) will participate in a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hearing on the alleged use of Pegasus and similar spyware in Serbia
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Milena Berić (KROKODIL) and Dušan Pokuševski (BCHR) will participate in a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hearing on the alleged use of Pegasus and similar spyware in Serbia

26 Feb Milena Berić (KROKODIL) and Dušan Pokuševski (BCHR) will participate in a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hearing on the alleged use of Pegasus and similar spyware in Serbia

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On 3 March 2025, beginning at 2.30 p.m. CET, Association KROKODIL’s Executive Director Milena Berić, and Program Director at the Belgrade Center for Human Rights Dušan Pokuševski will participate in a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe hearing following up on the topic “Pegasus and similar spyware and secret State surveillance” – focusing on the alleged use of such spyware in Serbia. The hearing will be livestreamed and we invite you to follow it via this link: https://www.youtube.com/live/x0T9q4U4KaM

Participants at the hearing, held by the Assembly’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights include:

* 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

We remind you that 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, following Amnesty International’s report on the misuse of spyware and mobile forensic products by Serbian authorities to unlawfully target activists and journalists. Amnesty International’s report, “A Digital Prison: Surveillance and the Suppression of Civil Society in Serbia,” released in December last year, detailed how mobile forensic products were used to extract data from journalists and activists’ mobile devices, and in some cases enabled the infection of those phones with spyware. This digital surveillance in Serbia is taking place amid ongoing anti-government demonstrations and persistent harassment of civil society critical of the authorities. On Tuesday, Serban police raided the offices of four NGOs to investigate the alleged “abuse of USAID funds,” citing statements by senior US Government officials on the USAID funding freeze.