From 90c51a54fcacc7dc590130efea90daa6fd801fbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 46halbe <46halbe@berlin.ccc.de> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:00:23 +0000 Subject: committing page revision 5 --- updates/2014/complaint.en.md | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'updates/2014/complaint.en.md') diff --git a/updates/2014/complaint.en.md b/updates/2014/complaint.en.md index 138e791b..2e860915 100644 --- a/updates/2014/complaint.en.md +++ b/updates/2014/complaint.en.md @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ title: Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government date: 2014-02-03 00:18:00 -updated: 2014-02-03 09:45:41 +updated: 2014-02-03 10:00:23 author: henning tags: update, pressemitteilung -On Monday, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR), have filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Prosecutor General's office. The complaint is directed against the German federal government, the presidents of the German secret services, namely Bundesnachrichtendienst, Militärischer Abschirmdienst, Bundesamt für Verfassungschutz, and others. We accuse US, British and German secret agents, their supervisors, the German Minister of the Interior as well as the German Chancelor of illegal and prohibited covert intelligence activities, aiding and abetting of those activities, of violation of the right to privacy and obstruction of justice in office by bearing and cooperating with the electronic surveillance of German citizens by NSA and GCHQ. +On Monday, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR), have filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Prosecutor General's office. The complaint is directed against the German federal government, the presidents of the German secret services, namely Bundesnachrichtendienst, Militärischer Abschirmdienst, Bundesamt für Verfassungschutz, and others. We accuse US, British and German secret agents, their supervisors, the German Minister of the Interior as well as the German Chancelor of illegal and prohibited covert intelligence activities, of aiding and abetting of those activities, of violation of the right to privacy and obstruction of justice in office by bearing and cooperating with the electronic surveillance of German citizens by NSA and GCHQ. After months of press releases about mass surveillance by secret -services and offensive attacks on information technology systems we have -certainty that German and other countries' secret services have violated -the criminal law. With this criminal complaint, we hope to finally -initiate investigations by the Federal Prosecutor General against the -German government. The CCC has learned with certainty that the leaders -of the secret services and the federal government have aided and abetted -the commission of these crimes. +services and offensive attacks on information technology systems, we now +have certainty that German and other countries' secret services have +violated the German criminal law. With this criminal complaint, we hope +to finally initiate investigations by the Federal Prosecutor General +against the German government. The CCC has learned with certainty that +the leaders of the secret services and the federal government have aided +and abetted the commission of these crimes. It is the understanding of the CCC that these crimes are felonies persuant to German federal laws, specifically 99 StGB (illegal activity -as a foreign agent), §§ 201 ff. StGB  (violation of privacy) and § 258 +as a foreign spy), §§ 201 ff. StGB  (violation of privacy) and § 258 StGB (obstruction of justice). "Every citizen is affected by the massive surveillance of their private @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ information about the illegal activities of German and foreign secret services and intend to bring the offenders of those crimes to accord. In the criminal complaint, we ask to hear technical expert and -whistleblower Edward Snowden as witness, and that he be provided safe +whistleblower Edward Snowden as a witness, and that he be provided safe passage and protection against extradition to the US. We do not only want to call the Federal Prosecutor General's office to -- cgit v1.2.3