Egypt's COP27 Special Envoy dismissed as "ludicrous" reports that his country was spying on delegates at the climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh and said some developing States believed the issue was an intentional distraction by rich nations trying to backtrack on their commitments, Reuters reports. Reuters, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, reported that German federal police had warned their nation's delegation at the summit in Egypt that its members may be subject to spying by Egyptian security agents. One of the people said German police sent an email warning the delegates of "overt and covert surveillance through photography and videography" by Egyptian agents. Comments, last week, by German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, about Egypt's human rights record provoked the threat of surveillance, that […] Source
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