Page 9 of 46 entity, claimed more than 100 properties owned by Jews before the war continued to be occupied as government facilities. The government had a committee of appointees and representatives of the Central Jewish Council to negotiate the disposition of remaining properties, but there were no new decisions on the ownership of disputed properties. The Department of State’s Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act Report to Congress, released publicly in July 2020, can be found on the Department’s website at https://www.state.gov/reports/just-act-report-tocongress/. h. Arbitrary or Unlawful Interference with Privacy, Family, Home, or Correspondence The constitution and law prohibited such actions with certain conditions; there were no reports that the government failed to respect these prohibitions. For example, the law permitted breaches of citizen privacy if preauthorized by both a public prosecutor and an appeals court prosecutor. In December 2022, the government passed a bill providing a two-year prison sentence for the use, sale, or distribution of spyware. A May report from the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry on the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA) found the country did not use spyware “as part of an integral authoritarian strategy,” but applied spyware against “journalists, politicians and businesspersons,” and exported spyware Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023 United States Department of State • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

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