The Attorney General's Office sanctions with short incapacity nine military personnel who illegally intercepted 130 journalists and politicians

El Pais

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The Attorney General’s Office has issued the first sanction in five years for the scandal of illegal interceptions known as Secret Folders against 130 journalists, politicians, human rights defenders and trade unionists. The document identifies nine military personnel as responsible, including a Brigadier General, for having exceeded their functions in military intelligence and having profiled citizens “without a legitimate purpose of national s…

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On May 2, the Attorney General's Office sanctioned nine army officers for carrying out acts of profiling and illegal surveillance against journalists. The nine members belong to Military Intelligence Brigade No. 1 of the Army, who committed disciplinary offences for doing intelligence from open sources, known as Osint, of journalists without support and in violation of their constitutional rights. Among the members sanctioned are a general, five…