Ariane Lavrilleux held over report showing Egypt used French intelligence to kill civilians.
  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    A perfect example of why privacy tools like TailsOS, GrapheneOS, and TOR are so important. We cannot allow these tools to be restricted, compromised, or banned.

    They are critical to keep those who are in power, accountable to the people.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      There is trial going on is France right now against 7 people accused of "association of terrorist criminals”.

      They haven’t done anything but they had a “clandestine behavior” (aka they used signal and proton to communicate with each other) which is enough apparently to indict them.

      “All members contacted adopted a clandestine behaviour, with increased security of means of communication (encrypted applications, Tails operating system, TOR protocol enabling anonymous browsing on the Internet and public wifi)”. General Directorate for Internal Security

      “All members of this group were particularly suspicious, only communicating with each other using encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computers and devices […]." The Investigating Judge

      https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    “To put in police custody a journalist for doing her job, moreover for revealing information of public interest, could be a threat to freedom of the press and confidentiality of sources.”

    Lavrilleux is reportedly being questioned by police officers from the French intelligence service - the General Directorate for Internal Security, or DGSI.

    Her 2021 report used leaked classified documents to allege that Egyptian authorities used French intelligence to bomb and kill smugglers on the Egyptian-Libyan border between 2016 and 2018.

    At the time of publication, Disclose acknowledged that the report included national security secrets but said that it was sharing them “in the name of a fundamental principle of democracy: the right to information”.

    After the articles were published, France’s armed forces ministry filed a legal complaint for “violation of national defence secrets”.

    The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called for Ms Lavrilleux’s release, asked that all criminal investigations against her are dropped and said police should refrain from questioning her over her sources.

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