The Pegasus Project gets Daphne Caruana Galizia journalism prize
The Pegasus Project, an investigative project by journalist consortium Forbidden Stories, has been awarded the first Daphne Caruana Galizia journalism prize.
The Prize, Euro 20 000, was initiated by a decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament in December 2019 as a tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese anti-corruption investigative jou rnalist and blogger who was killed in a car bomb attack in 2017.
The project showed how customers of the Israeli company NSO Group have used the company´s spy software to tap politicians´, activists´ and journalists´ mobile phones. The Forbidden Stories consortium and Amnesty International had access to records of phone numbers selected by NSO clients in more than 50 countries since 2016.
Journalists from the Pegasus Project comprised more than 80 reporters from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories with the technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab.
The Forbidden Stories consortium discovered that, contrary to what NSO Group has claimed for many years, this spyware has been widely misused. The leaked data showed that at least 180 journalists have been selected as targets in countries like India, Mexico, Hungary, Morocco and France, among others. Potential targets also include human rights defenders, academics, businesspeople, lawyers, doctors, union leaders, diplomats, politicians and several heads of states.
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