The consortium of journalists behind the Pegasus Venture investigation into malware from Israel-based NSO Group that offered additional proof that it was used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents, gained the highest European Union journalism prize.
The European Parliament mentioned in an announcement that the “unprecedented leak of greater than 50,000 telephone numbers chosen for surveillance by the shoppers of the Israeli firm NSO Group reveals how this expertise has been systematically abused for years.”
The record was obtained by the Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories and the human rights group Amnesty Worldwide and shared with 16 information organizations. Journalists had been capable of determine greater than 1,000 people in 50 international locations who had been allegedly chosen by NSO purchasers for potential surveillance.
They embrace 189 journalists, greater than 600 politicians and authorities officers, at the very least 65 enterprise executives, 85 human rights activists and several other heads of state, based on The Washington Submit, a consortium member. The journalists work for organizations together with The Related Press, Reuters, CNN, The Wall Avenue Journal, Le Monde and The Monetary Occasions.
The EU‘s inaugural prize of 20,000 euros (round $23,000) is known as after Daphne Caruana Galizia and is a tribute to the Maltese investigative journalist who was killed in a automotive bomb assault 4 years in the past.
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