Tag Archives: Espionage

  • Ecuadorian court revokes citizenship for Julian Assange

    Ecuador has revoked the citizenship of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who is currently in a British prison. Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalization in a letter. ...

  • Members of Dalai Lama’s inner circle on Pegasus list

    Phone numbers of key members of the inner circle of the Dalai Lama, including Central Tibetan Administration chief Penpa Tsering, are among the potential targets selected by users of the Pegasus spyware, according to media reports. ...

  • New York police officer arrested for spying on Tibetans

    A New York City police officer was charged on Monday with being an “intelligence asset” for the Chinese government who agreed to spy on US supporters of the Tibetan independence movement. ...

  • Chinese spying on Dalai Lama arrested in Delhi

    A Chinese national arrested for alleged money-laundering, was also bribing some Tibetan monks in Delhi, possibly to gather information on Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and his associates, the Income Tax department has found. ...

  • Australia investigates ‘Chinese plot’ to create spy MP

    Australia's prime minister insisted he was "not naive" to the threat of foreign interference Monday, as authorities investigated an alleged plot by China to recruit a businessman and get him elected. ...

  • Confused Assange in UK court ahead of extradition hearing

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in public for the first time in six months on Monday, seeming frail and confused during a British court appearance ahead of his extradition hearing. ...

  • Sweden charges Tibetan with spying for China

    Tibet Sun learned that the suspect is 49-year-old Tibetan Dorjee Gyantsan, who has been passing information about exile Tibetans in Sweden to a Chinese security agent. ...

  • China killed or jailed up to 20 US spies in 2010-12

    Beijing systematically dismantled CIA spying efforts in China beginning in 2010, killing or jailing more than a dozen covert sources, in a deep setback to US intelligence there. ...

  • WikiLeaks’ Assange hopes to exit London embassy if UK lets him

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent over two years in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid a sex crimes inquiry in Sweden, said on Monday he planned to leave the building "soon", but Britain signalled it would still arrest him if he tried. ...

  • Internet titans shine light on secret US data requests

    Internet titans eager to regain the trust of users for the first time on Monday provided insight into numbers of secret requests for user data made by the US government. ...