Chapter 18: MS. KANIMBA GOES TO WASHINGTON

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  22. Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Diane Taylor, “Nephew of Jailed Hotel Rwanda Dissi- dent Hacked by NSO Spyware,” Guardian, July 18, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/18/nephew-of-jailed-hotel-rwanda-dissident-hacked-by-nsospyware.

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  26. Judy Trinh, “Welcomed by Canada for Defying a Dictator, Syrian Activist Now Considered a Security Risk,” CTV News, June 23, 2023, https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/welcomed-by-canada-for-defying-a-dictator-syrian-activist-nowconsidered-a-security-risk-1.6453244.

  27. The Citizen Lab’s forthcoming report on digital transnational repression is coau- thored by Noura Aljizawi, Siena Anstis, Marcus Michaelsen, Veronica Arroyo, Shaila Baran, Maria Bikbulatova, Gözde Böcü, Camila Franco, Arzu Geybulla, MuetterIliqud, Nicola Lawford, Émilie LaFlèche, Gabby Lim, Levi Meletti, Maryam Mirza, Zoe Panday, Claire Posno, Zoë Reichert, Berhan Taye, and Angela Yang, with Ron Deibert as Principal Investigator.

  28. Dina Temple-Raston and Sean Powers, “Pegasus Is Listening: Q&A with Paul Ruse- sabagina’s Daughter Carine Kanimba,” Record, August 1, 2022, https://therecord.media/pegasus-is-listening-a-q-and-a-with-paul-rusesabaginas-daughter-carinekanimba.

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  30. Jonathan Scott, Exonerating Rwanda: The Spyware Case of Carine Kanimba, 2022, https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.18522.41922 (content removed by author, but archived link can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230602055352https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366298195_Exonerating_Rwanda_TheSpyware_Case_of_Carine_Kanimba) (archive: perma.cc/QB4V-N6G5).

  31. Jonathan Scott (@jonathandata1), “The forensics report was sent to me from Carine Kanimba. I provide all my comms with her, proof of false Pegasus infections, & I provide validation of my claims via @ZecOps an unaffiliated 3rd party who discovered these results before me. It’s a smear campaign against Rwanda,” Twitter, September 3, 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20220903072623/https://twittercom/jonathandata1/status/1565963934930292736.

  32. Jonathan Scott, Registration Statement Pursuant to the Foreign Agents Regis- tration Act of 1938, as Amended, US Department of Justice, December 27, 2023, https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7355-Registration-Statement-20231227-1.pdf (archive: perma.cc/LZN6-5S73).

  33. Jonathan Scott, Exhibit A to Registration Statement Pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as Amended, US Department of Justice, December 27, 2023, https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7355-Exhibit-AB-20231227-1.pdf (archive: perma.cc/4WYY-YZDR) (archive: perma.cc/4WYY-YZDR); Jonathan Scott, Exhibit B to Registration Statement Pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as Amended, US Department of Justice, December 27, 2023, https:// efile.fara.gov/docs/7355-Exhibit-AB-20231227-1.pdf (archive: perma.cc/4WYY-YZDR).

  34. Cthulhu (@Cthulhu_Answers), “So here we go. A thread exposing a major fuck up by Rwanda National Police in the recruiting of Jonathan Boyd Scott aka Jonathan Lee Villarreal and a curious Russian connection. A thread,” X, January 7, 2024, https://x.com/Cthulhu_Answers/status/1744057582757806467 (archive: perma.cc/JTB5-EJ9P).

  35. Rwanda National Police, “RNP Has Not Hired Jonathan Scott,” press release, January 6, 2024, https://police.gov.rw/media/press-releases/press-in-details/news/rnp-has-not-hired-jonathan-scott/ (archive: perma.cc/3B2F-9679).

  36. Runa Sandvik, “Fact Check: Jonathan Scott’s Report on Morocco,” Untidy (blog), March 6, 2023, https://www.untidy.news/p/fact-check-jonathan-scotts-report (archive: perma.cc/E85A-2JCT).

  37. Alberto Daniel Hill—CYBERMIDNIGHT CLUB, “Facts: The Carine Kanimba False Positive Spyware Case & CatalanGate,” September 8, 2022, video, 1:57:10, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD3XhWUI8Fs (archive: perma.cc/3HZL-3UKR).

  38. Jose Javier Olivas (@josejolivas), “However that (false positive) ‘infection’ still fed into an statement for an investigation for presumed illegal espionage by Rwandan government on Carine Kanimba. Formal statement here on 27 July 2021 (5 day after): https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20220727/115048/HHRG-117IG00-Wstate-KanimbaC-20220727.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiWgcyJ1vr5AhUdg_0HHRduDRMQFnoECAoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3GyIfwBO9TuMAWmKRmDLZ . . . 453/,” X, September 4, 2022, https://x.com/josejolivas/status1566371514756243456 (archive: perma.cc/FK29-MBUW); Jose Javier Olivas (@josejolivas), “Precisely the false indi- cator/process ‘Diagnosticd’ they had already acknowledged to be a false positive in July 2021, appears in the first place as indicator of compromise in the report Amnesty Tech wrote and was submitted with Carine Kanimba complaint. 454/,” X, September 4, 2022, https://x.com/josejolivas/status/1566371536411533313 (archive: perma.cc/9GQ8-CLJU); Jose Javier Olivas (@josejolivas), “It didn’t matter to @citizenlab who in June 2022 wrote another formal statement (@UofT @munkschool) to support the claim of illegal surveillance on Carine Kanimba omitting the fact that in her case there was at least a false positive . This could have legal implications 458/,” X, September 4, 2022, https://x.com/josejolivas/status/1566371591897989121 (archive: perma.cc/AJ92-T9ZQ).

  39. Jose Javier Olivas (@josejolivas), “Runa acting as Runa. #metoo ,” X, May 17, 2023, https://x.com/josejolivas/status/1658876851316457495 (archive: perma.cc/XD2X-2KEF).

  40. Ariel Kahana, “‘NSO Accusations Were Part of International Disinformation Campaign,’” Israel Hayom, September 2, 2022, https://www.israelhayom.com/202209/02/the-accusations-against-nso-were-part-of-a-disinformation-campaign/ (archive: perma.cc/ZQ9J-DFKK).

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