Dalai Lama’s close aides targeted on Pegasus spyware list

‘Analysis indicates that the Indian govt. was selecting the potential targets’

Several of the top India-based aides to the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, figure on the list of potential targets for spying using the Pegasus spyware, according to a report on Thursday. The phone numbers of the Dalai Lama’s aides were among the list of 50,000 numbers accessed by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International and shared with 17 media organisations. One of those organisations, The Wire, reported on Thursday that several phone numbers of top Tibetan officials in Dharamsala “were marked from late 2017 to early 2019”. Another one of those organisations, The Guardian, said “analysis strongly indicates that the Indian government was selecting the potential targets.”