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Etonnant quand même avec quelle aisance les Inkotanyi driblaient les Ingirabwoba, pourtant emmenés par de pompeux officiers BEM, dès l'arrivée aux commandes de l'éphémère ancien de Fort Worth!
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The American daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, the imprisoned Rwandan activist who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, has been the victim of a near-constant surveillance campaign, according to a forensic analysis of her mobile phone that found evidence of multiple attacks using NSO Group spyware.
Carine Kanimba, a US-Belgian dual citizen, has been leading her family's effort to free her father from prison following Rusesabagina's abduction and forced return to Kigali last year by the government of the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame.
Amnesty International's forensic analysis found that Kanimba's phone had been infiltrated since at least January this year.
It strongly suggests that the Kagame government – which has long been suspected of being a client of the Israeli surveillance firm NSO – has been able to monitor the 28-year-old's private calls and discussions with US, European and British government officials. A spokesperson for the Rwandan government said the country "does not use this software system … and does not possess this technical capability in any form".
A phone infected with NSO malware, as Kanimba's has been, not only gives users of the spyware access to phone calls and messages, but it can also turn a mobile phone into a portable tracking and listening device. In the period before she was alerted to her phone being hacked, Kanimba said she had contacts with the US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, British MPs, and the UK high commission office in Rwanda – all of which could have been monitored. She also held talks with Baroness Helena Kennedy, a barrister and member of the House of Lords.
The State Department declined to comment.
The forensic evidence suggests the spying began in January – though it may have been earlier – and paused in May while Kanimba was in the US. It resumed again on 14 June, the day she met the Belgian foreign affairs minister, Sophie Wilmès. Sources in the minister's office said no sensitive information was shared in the meeting.
Pegasus: the spyware technology that threatens democracy – video
Rusesabagina is a Belgian national widely credited with saving more than 1,000 people in the Rwandan genocide. He became a vocal critic of Kagame and was living in the US and Belgium until his arrest by the Rwandan government last year. He is facing life in prison after being accused of terror-related charges, including murder and staging attacks in Rwanda. The 67-year-old's family staunchly deny the allegations.
In an interview with Knack, a journalism partner in the Pegasus project, Kanimba described how the diplomatic effort to have her father released began from the moment she and her family discovered he had been kidnapped, with calls to "every single member of the European parliament and every member of the Belgian parliament" as well as human rights organisations.
"In 1994, during the genocide, the way my father was able to protect people in the hotel was that he made calls every day. With the last working telephone in the hotel," she said. "And we did the exact same thing."
News of the hacking campaign will heighten scrutiny of the Rwandan government's treatment of Rusesabagina at a time when some US lawmakers have pushed for the administration of Joe Biden to put more pressure on Kagame to release him and to protect Rwandans in the US from harassment.
Rwanda has long been suspected of being an end user of NSO malware, with a history of targeting dissidents at home and abroad.
In 2019 at least six dissidents connected to Rwanda were warned by WhatsApp that they had been targeted by spyware made by the NSO in an attack that affected hundreds of users around the world over a two-week period from April to May that year.
Key figures in the Rwandan diaspora, including exiles living in Canada and the US, appear to have been included in a leaked list of persons of interest to NSO clients.
Rusesabagina, who has been referred to as "Africa's Schindler", is alleged by family members to have been tortured in the days after his rendition. Rwandan authorities have denied that he was kidnapped or mistreated in custody. His trial has been condemned by human rights groups and has sharpened criticism of Kagame's nearly three-decade-long hold over Rwanda from key allies in the UK and the US.
In an interview, Anaïse Kanimba, Carine's sister, said her entire family felt as if they were under constant watch by the Kagame government.
In one case, she said she and her family had reason to suspect their emails were being monitored after her father's lawyer, Felix Rudakemwa, was searched during a prison visit following a private communication from the family about an affidavit he wanted Rusesabagina to sign that would attest to his allegations of torture. The search, she said, appeared to be focused on finding the affidavit.
"We just assume we are being watched," Anaïse Kanimba said. "We tell ourselves we have nothing to hide. But this idea of knowing constantly that someone is looking over you, it is really uncomfortable and scary … I hate living with it."
There is no evidence that Anaïse Kanimba's phone was hacked.
Vincent Biruta, Rwanda's minister of foreign affairs, said: "Rwanda does not use this software system … and does not possess this technical capability in any form. These false accusations are part of an ongoing campaign to cause tensions between Rwanda and other countries, and to sow disinformation about Rwanda domestically and internationally."
NSO denied "false claims" made about the activities of its clients, but said it would "continue to investigate all credible claims of misuse and take appropriate action". It said in the past it had shut off client access to Pegasus where abuse had been confirmed.
Among the Rwandans that the Pegasus project found were listed in the data as candidates for possible surveillance was David Himbara, an economist who formerly worked for Kagame in Rwanda but later fled and sought protection in Canada. Himbara has questioned claims of stellar economic growth over the years, calling the figures a "fantasy".
"The lifestyle forced on me is a preoccupation to avoid becoming another victim of Kagame's death warrant. I do not take personal security for granted even though the distance between Toronto, Canada, where I live, and Kigali, Rwanda, is 11,703km to be precise," he said.
A forensic analysis of Himbara's mobile phone by Amnesty International has not found any evidence that it was successfully hacked. It is not clear from leaked records which client country selected Himbara as a potential target.
La fille d'un opposant rwandais espionnée par Pegasus en Belgique
HATIM KAGHAT Par Joël Matriche et Kristof Clerix
Publié aujourd'hui à 18h00
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EnquêteOpposant notoire au président Kagame et héros du film « Hôtel Rwanda », Paul Rusesabagina est actuellement jugé à Kigali. Sa fille, qui se bat sans relâche pour sa libération, a vu son téléphone infecté par le logiciel espion. Les autorités rwandaises démentent toute implication.
Gérant de l'Hôtel des Mille Collines, que détient la Sabena, l'ancienne compagnie aérienne belge, au cœur de Kigali, Paul Rusesabagina n'a pas encore fêté ses 40 ans lorsque, le 6 avril 1994, un missile sol-air touche de plein fouet le Falcon-50 qui ramène le président rwandais Juvénal Habyarimana de Tanzanie. L'événement déclenche un génocide qui, en quelques semaines, signe la mort de plus de 800 000 Tutsi et Hutu modérés.
Immédiatement, Paul Rusesabagina, dont l'épouse est tutsi, se réfugie dans l'hôtel dont il a la charge, ouvrant la porte à 1 268 autres réfugiés, les protégeant – dans des circonstances controversées – des milices. Un sauvetage mis en scène par l'Irlandais Terry George dans le film Hôtel Rwanda, en 2004.
Installé en Belgique avec sa famille depuis 1996et devenu l'un des opposants les plus virulents de l'actuel président, Paul Kagame, Paul Rusesabagina, 67 ans, a été arrêté à la fin du mois d'août 2020 au Rwanda. Il doit répondre de neuf chefs d'accusation, dont celui de terrorisme, et risque de finir ses jours en prison.
Ce dissident averti, dont les inimitiés réciproques avec les autorités de Kigali étaient connues, s'est retrouvé menotté à la fin des vacances d'été 2020, prisonnier exhibé à la presse par le Bureau rwandais d'investigation… Le citoyen belge avait décollé de l'aéroport de San Antonio (Texas), où il réside une partie de l'année, afin de se rendre au Burundi. Or, lorsque son vol a fait escale aux Emirats arabes unis, un pays qui entretient d'excellentes relations avec le Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina a embarqué dans un avion privé qui, croyait-il, allait le mener à Bujumbura. En fait, il s'est retrouvé à Kigali, où son procès s'est ouvert en février.
Les proches de M. Rusesabagina ont envisagé que les communications de ce dernier avaient été écoutées par les services de renseignement rwandais. Une suspicion qui s'est étoffée lorsque, dans le cadre de cette enquête collaborative menée par Le Soir et Knack en collaboration avec Forbidden Stories, Amnesty International et quinze autres médias, l'un des iPhone de Carine Kanimba – l'une des filles de Paul Rusesabagina –, analysé par le Security Lab d'Amnesty International, a révélé des traces récentes d'intrusion.
« J'avais réservé le vol de mon père jusqu'à Dubaï, il s'était déjà arrangé lui-même pour aller de Dubaï au Burundi », raconte Carine Kanimba, formelle sur le fait qu'« il ne serait jamais rendu au Rwanda de son plein gré, parce que le gouvernement rwandais a déjà tenté de le tuer. » « Ils ont déjà pénétré dans notre maison en Belgique à plusieurs reprises. (…) Il y a quelques années, nous avons reçu l'enregistrement audio de deux personnes en train de parler. C'étaient deux membres du Bureau rwandais d'investigation, ils envisageaient d'empoisonner mon père, mais aussi de mettre des photos pédopornographiques dans son ordinateur. Ils avaient ce matériel, il leur fallait juste pouvoir s'approcher de son ordinateur. Puis ils auraient alerté le FBI afin qu'ils l'arrêtent. Et la même chose se serait passée en Belgique. Mon père s'est rendu à la police afin de porter plainte. »
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On Sunday, July 18, 2021, 11:44:59 p.m. EDT, 'Nzi Nink' via rwandanet <rwandanet@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Ikinyamakuru Intyoza dukesha aya makuru, kivuga ko bariya bana bavugwaho kuba barafashe ifoto ya Perezida Kagame iri mu gitabo bigiramo, bakandikaho ijambo RIP (Rest In Peace) ubundi ryandikwa ku muntu witabye Imana bamwifuriza iruhuko ryiza.
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