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Rights Groups Call for Inquiry Into Why Amnesty Was Spied On

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Three leading human rights organizations have called on prime minister David Cameron to launch an inquiry into why British intelligence services spied illegally on Amnesty International. The revelation that the Government Communications Headquarters or GCHQ, has been monitoring its communications, came in a revised judgment this month from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the body responsible for handling complaints about state surveillance. The IPT’s initial ruling said that communications from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and the South African non-profit Legal Resources Centre had been illegally retained and examined. The tribunal then sent out a correction, explaining it was Amnesty and not the Egyptian organization that had been snooped on.

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