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Amnesty: Pakistani Human Rights Activists Targeted for Digital Attacks

HeadlineMay 16, 2018

In Pakistan, an investigation by Amnesty International has revealed how human rights workers are being targeted by digital attacks aimed at infiltrating their phones and computers, infecting them with malware, stealing their data and subjecting the human rights workers to intensive surveillance. Amnesty has not determined who is behind the digital attacks against human rights activists in Pakistan.

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