Public prosecution authorities in Munich have decided not to launch investigatory proceedings against employees of German-British firm Gamma International. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the British organization Privacy International submitted a criminal complaint on 16 October 2014 calling for an investigation. The organizations have evidence to suggest that Bahraini authorities used a Gamma Trojan called FinFisher to unlawfully spy on oppositionists living in Germany and elsewhere. ECCHR will lodge an objection to the prosecution authorities’ decision. “The prosecution’s argument does not stand up to legal scrutiny,” says Miriam Saage-Maaß, Vice Legal Director at ECCHR. “If the authorities find the information from the Wikileaks files to be insufficient then they must conduct their own investigations!”...“In view of the reality of surveillance in Bahrain it is absurd to claim that state authorities are not in a position to engage in hacking and violate Section 202 of the German Criminal Code prohibiting data espionage,” says Saage-Maaß...