Amnesty said it found NoviSpy, an Android spyware linked to Serbian intelligence, on the phones of several members of Serbian civil society following police stops.

Amnesty International calls for the Serbian government to end these surveillance practices: Serbian authorities must stop using highly invasive spyware and provide effective remedy to victims of unlawful targeted surveillance and hold those responsible for the violations to account.

Amnesty International claims Serbian activists’ phones hacked by police with spyware tools, raising privacy concerns.

As tech companies make it harder to infect phones remotely, governments are using physical access to the devices of activists to insert spyware programs.

Serbia's security services are monitoring the mobile phones of journalists and activists critical of the government using illegally installed spyware, Amnesty International claimed on Monday. Experts from the human rights group were able to detect data-transmitting software on the devices of 13 activists and journalists,

Amnesty International says Serbia’s secret service and police have been spying on journalists and opposition activists by installing a spyware on their mobile phones

By bne IntelliNews Amnesty International has accused Serbian authorities of conducting covert surveillance on journalists, activists and civil society members through advanced spyware and digital forensic tools,