More than 18 months after FIDH and LDH filed a complaint before the Prosecutor of the Paris Court denouncing the alleged implication of French companies, in particular Qosmos, in the selling of surveillance material to Bachar El Assad’s regime, FIDH and LDH welcome today’s decision to open a judicial investigation for complicity of acts of torture in Syria…This new development follows the opening, in May 2012, of another judicial investigation into the alleged implication of the French company Amesys for complicity to acts of torture in Libya…Qosmos…has been called into question several times by several different sources, for supplying the Syrian regime with an electronic surveillance equipment. This particular technology…enables intelligence services to perfect their means of repression against dissident voices, notably by intercepting live electronic communications with the help of key-words…[Also refers to Amesys (part of Bull)]