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一 |     近日，湖南长沙一家长反映自己的女儿遭遇校园霸凌，被迫割喉求生。对此，长沙警方通报：已提请检察机关提前介入。    "American defense and intelligence contractors like L3Harris want to make money, and there is a market for spyware, domestically and globally," explains retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense. "With the NSO Group sanctioned by the USG for surveillance abuse against Americans and others, buying the Israeli company, its codes, software and tools, and hiring its people directly is a way to get that access (and in theory removing it from the sanction list by incorporating it under a different US company entity).",The controversial negotiations between NSO and L3Harris were jointly reported by the Guardian, the Washington Post and Haaretz on June 14. At the time, The Guardian quoted a senior White House official as saying: "Such a transaction, if it were to take place, raises serious counterintelligence and security concerns for the US government.",The US Commerce Department blacklisted Israeli firm NSO Group in November 2021 for providing spyware called Pegasus to foreign governments that "used these tools to maliciously target" journalists, embassy workers and activists. According to the Biden administration, NSO acted "contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.",Israeli Police Chief Orders Creation of Commission to Investigate Pegasus Spyware Scandal7 February, 14:16 GMT,"Pegasus is a 'zero-click' hacking tool that can remotely extract everything from a target’s mobile phone, including messages, contacts, photos and videos without the user having to click on a phishing link to give it remote access," wrote The New York Times, adding that the Israeli wonder-tool could also turn the target's mobile phone "into a tracking and recording device.",Nonetheless, L3Harris kicked off covert talks with NSO, claiming that US intelligence officials quietly supported its plans to purchase the firm's core spyware technology as well as a possible transfer of NSO personnel to the American defense contractor. What’s more, NSO's technology has long been "of intense interest" to the FBI and the CIA, according to NYT.,Thus, in March 2022, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to Congress that the agency had bought NSO's spyware Pegasus, claiming that the agency acquired the tool for evaluation but did not use it.,"The FBI has not and did not use the NSO products operationally in any investigation," Wray told the lawmakers. "I can confirm that we bought a limited license for testing and investigation. We routinely evaluate technologies that are out there: what are the security concerns raised by those products?",Top Polish Politician Admits Country Bought Israeli Pegasus Spyware7 January, 11:30 GMT,The L3Harris-NSO negotiations continued in secret until June 2022, when the US and Israeli mainstream press leaked information about the possible sale, prompting a storm of criticism from the White House. According to The Guardian, Washington denied that the US intelligence community had ever been "supportive" of the deal. However, this possibility cannot be ruled out, according to Kwiatkowski.,"The outcry of US citizenry and media about illegal and harmful surveillance by the NSO group drove the Biden sanctions; Intel community bureaucrats and their contractors have very different interests, they want to use the most capable (and cost effective) software surveillance and tracking tools out there," she explains.,Kwiatkowski has no doubts that if NSO hacking technology were acquired, it would have been used on American citizens. Furthermore, she does not rule out that "it is already being used, much as before sanctions, and the purchase is in part designed to ensure its use can continue and be expanded.",According to Kwiatkowski, "if left only to lawyers and politicians, this purchase in some form… would proceed and happen, and ultimately serve as a relief from existing sanctions for several aspects of NSO Group's products and services.",Apparently, the "hypocritical and self-serving" deal was slowed down and stopped due to the fact that it was widely publicized, according to the former Pentagon analyst.,Report: US Intel Operatives Backed Plans to Buy Infamous NSO Group Before Negotiations Were Axed11 July, 01:26 GMT,Meanwhile, NSO Group is said to be involved in a broad campaign in the United States to get off Washington's blacklist, according to ProPublica nonprofit newsroom and Shomrim, an Israel-based nonpartisan news organization.,"NSO has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past year in payments to lobbyists, public relations companies and law firms in the US, in the hope of reversing the Biden administration’s November decision, according to public records filed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act and conversations with people familiar with the effort," ProPublica and Shomrim reported on 12 July.,Moreover, NSO is currently trying to get the matter raised during a meeting between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, according to the news organizations.,"So far, the lobbying campaign has generated little response," the report said. "NSO has not been told what it needs to do to remove itself from the list, according to the people familiar with the campaign."。　　据报道，近日，湖南长沙一男子在社交平台发布视频称，其就读于长沙市一中学的女儿遭到校园霸凌，并称女儿被殴打过程中用玻璃碎片划伤喉部，以此方式希望施暴者停止殴打。　　据奔流新闻4月23日报道，在该家长发布的视频中，一女孩被多名身穿校服的女孩和男孩殴打，不断扇耳光和用脚踩头部。有人喊“把刀拿过来，老子要捅她一刀子”。视频中，有被打女孩脖子部位被割伤的图像。

二 | 　　女孩称被学校的阎某涵等人殴打，为逃避殴打，女孩捡起玻璃碎碴划伤喉部，企图以自杀的方式乞求阎某涵等人停止殴打，不料却换来变本加厉的殴打。女孩家长表示，孩子被打不止一次。　　4月16日，湖南航天医院出具的住院患者疾病诊断证明显示，该女生腕部开放性损伤(右，尺侧腕屈肌部分断裂)；颈部多处开放性伤口；面部挫伤；头皮血肿；建议继续住院治疗。　　长沙市公安局高新区分局麓谷派出所接案回执显示，曾受理刘某某被殴打案。

三 | 记者致电该派出所，未获得回应。图片来源：红星新闻　　4月23日下午，记者联系到长沙市岳麓区西雅中学，工作人员表示，已经知道此事，相关情况有关部门正在调查。　　23日深夜，长沙高新公安发布警情通报，全文如下：　　2024年4月16日凌晨4时23分，长沙市岳麓区西雅中学初三学生刘某（女，14岁）报警称被同学殴打。接到报警后，我局麓谷派出所迅速依法开展调查，将嫌疑人阎某（女，15岁）、黄某（女，14岁）及在场人员传唤到案。目前，已提请检察机关提前介入，案件正在进一步侦办中。　　公安机关将坚决依法打击各类侵害未成年人合法权益的违法行为，切实保护未成年人的身心健康。　　（中国小康网综合“长沙高新公安”微信公众号、奔流新闻、红星新闻）。

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