"Charges dropped against French company that sold spyware to Egypt", 15 December 2023

A Paris court yesterday dismissed charges of complicity in torture against a French company and its directors who sold advanced spyware to the Egyptian government.

Nexa Technology and four of its executives were accused in 2021 of selling the Cerebro software to Egypt, which enabled the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to spy on political opponents, possibly torturing and forcibly disappearing them.

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The well-known French investigative website, Disclose, had revealed in a previous report that the arms giants Dassault, Thales and Nexa Technology, which are French arms and spyware companies, sold a mass surveillance system to the Egyptian authorities.

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