French Spyware executives are accused of aiding and abetting torture
Earlier this week, French authorities he implicated four former executives Nexa Technologies surveillance company, formerly known as Amesys, for complicity in torture and war crimes. Between 2007 and 2014, the company provided surveillance tools to authoritarian regimes in Libya and Egypt.
A coalition of the International Federation for Human Rights, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Research and other human rights groups has claimed that the repressive government of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has used tools to identify dissidents and activists. read emails and private messages and in some cases kidnapped, tortured or killed.
France: Judicial investigation opens into Amesys and Nexa Technologies surveillance equipment sales to Libya & Egypt linked to torture & disappearances
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French police sue sister of Adama Traoré, black man who died in custody
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AFP - KENZO TRIBOUILLARD
The sister of a black French man who died in police custody five years ago was to appear in court Thursday charged with defamation for publicly naming the three gendarmes involved in his death.
Assa Traoré has become a figure of France s anti-racist struggle since her 24-year-old brother Adama lost his life after being handcuffed by police and pinned to the ground in the northern suburbs of Paris.
Experts have been unable to agree if he was suffocated, or whether an underlying medical condition was to blame. Investigations are ongoing.