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