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Judge confirms spying on Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui, but acquits the only person accused due to lack of evidence

"For Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui, the Pegasus case is more alive and open than ever despite the ruling issued this afternoon [Jan. 12] by Judge Luis Benítez Alcántara, in which he acquitted the only person accused of spying on her with the aforementioned software. [...]

'It was fully recognized judicially and without any doubt that there is a victim, at least one and I presume that there are many more [...]. Now it is up to the Attorney General's Office to do its job, to raise its standards -- if indeed it did not meet them as the judge said-- and to respond to Mexico in the face of a widespread offense committed illegally, irresponsibly and massively,' [Aristegui] said.

[…] Although he [Judge Benítez] acknowledged that Aristegui was indeed spied on, he pointed out that the FGR did not meet the sufficient evidence standards to accredit its accusation and therefore said that it must continue investigating the spying of the journalist."

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