UK’s intelligence agency has spied on Amnesty international’s communications، the tribunal responsible for handling complaints against the intelligence services revealed.
On Wednesday، Amnesty International was notified through email by the tribunal that its communication had been accessed and stored by the Government Communications Headquarters agency، GCHQ.
In the email، the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) was correcting a 22 June ruling that had mistakenly identified one of two NGOs which it found had been subjected to unlawful surveillance by the UK government.
It made clear that it was actually Amnesty International and not the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) that was spied on، in addition to the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa.
The organisations were among ten NGOs that launched a complaint against suspected unlawful surveillance of their work by UK’s spy agencies.
Source: Al Jazeera