Paragon's "Graphite" malware has been implicated in widespread misuse by the Italian government. Researchers at Citizen Lab at the Monk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and with Meta found that it has been used in Italy to spy on journalists and civil society actors, including humanitarian workers. Without strong legal guardrails, there is a risk that the malware will be misused in a similar manner by the U.S. Government.
Police officers from the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo detained him on both occasions for political reasons, specifically for being the legal advisor to the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, a collegiate body made up of several Catholic bishops hated by the co-presidential couple. His family did not know where he had been taken, and they were in a state of anxiety for 12 days, until Saturday, August 30, when they received a fateful call:
A coalition of over 100 U.S. groups is demanding that Israeli officials release 16-year-old Palestinian American Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim from imprisonment, warning that authorities are starving him and denying him medical care as they've barred the child from seeing his family for over six months. The groups called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to act to end Mohammed's "unjust" imprisonment in Israel's Ofer prison, a facility notorious for its abuses against Palestinians, including children.
The report highlighted rampant overcrowding and potentially deadly indifference to medical needs at three immigration detention facilities in Florida, leading to serious human rights concerns.