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A new @amnesty report raises serious concerns about the alleged use of Pegasus and Candiru spyware against politicians, lawyers, journalists and activists linked to the Catalan independence movement in Spain. According to Amnesty, victims have faced years of obstacles in obtaining truth, justice and effective investigations, while the legal framework for intelligence surveillance remains too weak, opaque and difficult to challenge. As we recently said in relation to similar spyware cases in Greece and Italy — and as we have also seen in Hungary — Europe urgently needs clear rules on the use, sale and control of these intrusive surveillance tools. If confirmed, this would be extremely serious. No democracy can tolerate spyware being used against political opponents, civil society or legal professionals. We stand in solidarity with those targeted. Such practices are unacceptable and incompatible with the rule of law.