Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe

Poland arrested Piotr Pogonowski, former head of the country's internal security agency, on Monday and forcibly took him to testify before parliament. The arrest is part of the current Tusk government's probe into alleged abuse of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware under the previous Law and Justice (PiS) administration, according to the Financial Times. Pogonowski reportedly ignored three summons to testify to the parliamentary committee. In 2021, Citizen Lab and Amnesty International concluded that Pegasus was used against three critics of the previous government, including a senator allegedly hacked dozens of times before the 2019 parliamentary elections.