Spyware attacks threaten the privacy and safety of people around the world. Following a landmark ruling against NSO Group, @WhatsApp is seeking to hold the company accountable for violating the court’s order and continuing attempts to target users. about.fb.com/news/2026/06/fi…

VICTORY‼️ BELGIUM'S HIGHEST COURT RULED IN MY FAVOUR‼️🎉 Yesterday, on 3 June 2026, the Belgian Court of Cassation rejected #Kazakhstan's final appeal in my case. The decision is now final and binding. This case was about the abuse of "mutual legal assistance" (MLA), the system countries use to help each other investigate crimes. Kazakhstan exploited it, dressing up a politically motivated attack on me as an ordinary criminal request to weaponise #Belgium for its transnational repression. The Belgian justice system has now definitively confirmed that Kazakhstan's MLA request was politically motivated, not a genuine criminal matter. The background: #Kazakhstan has tried to silence me for years, putting me on the #INTERPOL Most Wanted list, fabricating criminal complaints, and trying to have me abducted or extradited from #Belgium. In 2018, its secret service took my brother hostage on fabricated charges. While he was held in solitary confinement and tortured, Kazakhstan asked Belgium to "help" in a criminal case: the very same fabricated case built against him❗️ In October 2019, while I was at the @PACE_News in #Strasbourg speaking about human rights, Belgian police raided my home in #Brussels, bringing #Kazakh agents with them, all at Kazakhstan's MLA request. They seized my phones, computers, every device and my confidential legal files, to be handed to the very regime persecuting me. For more than six years, I fought this in the Belgian courts: ⚖️In 2019, Belgian law gave a refugee like me no right to appeal in such proceedings. I appealed anyway, arguing it was discrimination and a breach of the ECHR and the Belgian #Constitution. The Court of Appeal referred my case to the Constitutional Court. ⚖️ In 2022, the Constitutional Court recognised my right to challenge this cooperation, a right the law did not even provide, and called on Parliament to change the law. ⚖️In 2024, the Indictment Division ruled Kazakhstan had no standing in the proceedings to lift the seizures. ⚖️In 2025, after many twists and turns, the Court of Appeal ruled the October 2019 searches were politically motivated and should have been refused. It ordered the seizures lifted, the transmission of my files to Kazakhstan banned, and all copies returned or destroyed. I thought it was over. But… 🚩Kazakhstan appealed to the Court of Cassation, arguing, astonishingly, that the decision had violated KAZAKHSTAN's own right to a fair trial under the Belgian #Constitution & the #ECHR (!!!). It even asked the Court to refer its question to the Constitutional Court of #Belgium. The audacity! 🚩 ⚖️On 3 June 2026, the Court of Cassation declared Kazakhstan's appeal inadmissible for lack of standing and refused to refer its question. 🎉🎉🎉 The message is clear: a foreign regime cannot turn Belgian justice into a weapon of transnational repression! This is far bigger than my case. It is a clear signal that democratic #EU must not be weaponised by authoritarian regimes. To everyone who stood with me, thank you so much! 🫶🫶🫶 The fight against transnational repression goes on. 💪💪💪 lalibre.be/dernieres-depeche…

💬 #Zakharova: The West is losing its grip on the global information space. ☝️ Tired of endless Western disinformation & propaganda, people across Europe are increasingly seeking alternative sources of information. We will do everything to break this blockade of dehumanization.

One year ago, Sergey Tikhanovski was in a six-square-meter punishment cell. Today, he is a free man speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum. After five years in solitary confinement under Lukashenko’s regime, Tikhanovski reflects on what prison tried to erase: truth, dignity, and the belief that political prisoners can still come home. His message: Freedom must be incorporated into political decisions. That’s how you free political prisoners.