Spyware in Mexico Targeted Investigators Seeking Students<br />James said that This case just on its face — and presuming the veracity of the allegations<br />— is serious enough to warrant the creation of an international commission,<br />Mr. Cavallaro said that The Mexican government implored the commission to create this expert group,<br />and then when their investigation did not ratify the official version, things changed,<br />John Scott-Railton said that Citizen Lab and our partners are finding people targeted with NSO spyware almost wherever we look in Mexico,<br />By AZAM AHMEDJULY 10, 2017<br />MEXICO CITY — A team of international investigators brought to Mexico to unravel one of the nation’s gravest human rights atrocities<br />was targeted with sophisticated surveillance technology sold to the Mexican government to spy on criminals and terrorists.<br />Appointed by an international commission that polices human rights in the Americas, the investigators say they were quickly met with stonewalling<br />by the Mexican government, a refusal to turn over documents or grant vital interviews, and even a retaliatory criminal investigation.<br />The effort to spy on international officials adds to a sweeping espionage offensive in Mexico, where some of the country’s most prominent journalists, human rights lawyers<br />and anticorruption activists have been the targets of the same surveillance technology.<br />Many Mexicans believed that their best chance of finding out what really happened to the students lay with the international investigators, who were appointed<br />by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a regional body based in Washington that monitors countries and can refer cases to court.
