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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