Mexican Military Accused of Spying on Human Rights Official Investigating Abuses

• Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that his top human rights official, Alejandro Encinas, was being spied on but downplayed the surveillance.
• Encinas was repeatedly targeted by the spyware known as Pegasus while investigating abuses by the country's military.
• Pegasus can infiltrate cellphones without leaving any trace of an intrusion and extract every piece of data from them.
• The Israeli-made spy tool has infected thousands of cellphones across the world and is licensed to be sold only to government agencies.
• There is no definitive proof of who was behind the hacks of Encinas's phone, but in Mexico, the only entity that has access to Pegasus is the military.

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