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Publisher of the Riga-based independent news website Meduza, Galina Timchenko, was put under surveillance during a stay in Berlin. Deeply shocked by another scandalous case of journalist surveillance via NSO’s spyware, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the German government and all parties involved to conduct a swift and thorough investigation.
The public has known for years that governments around the world use software developed by an Israeli cyber-arms company to spy on journalists, opposition politicians, and activists. Investigative journalists published a series of bombshell reports in July 2021 about the widespread abuse of Pegasus, a powerful tool marketed exclusively to state clients for use against only the grisliest criminals. Earlier this summer, Meduza learned that the iPhone of our co-founder and publisher, Galina Timchenko, was infected with Pegasus mere hours before she joined a private conference in Berlin attended b...
In January of 2022, a UK-based independent investigative firm called Stoke White Investigations revealed that one of its clients, Karim, had been tortured while in detention in Kashmir. Reports of arbitrary detentions and torture by the Indian military against Kashmiris are not uncommon in the Indian-occupied region. But Karim’s description of his interrogators was peculiar: They were not of Indian origin, he alleged, but white and spoke with US accents. They seemed to show little interest in his activities in Kashmir or his stances on domestic issues. They were instead curious about his vie...
A non-profit global network of investigative journalists, Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), says in an article crores of rupees were invested in listed stocks of India's Adani group via 'opaque' funds from Mauritius that 'obscured' the involvement of alleged business partners of the Adani family.
The use of sophisticated spyware to hack into the devices of journalists and human rights defenders during a period of conflict in Armenia has alarmed an