The 17 journalists – two from Azerbaijan, five from Mexico, five from India, one from Spain, two  from Hungary, one from Morocco and one from Togo

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2021-08-06 19:30:05

The 17 journalists – two from Azerbaijan, five from Mexico, five from India, one from Spain, two  from Hungary, one from Morocco and one from Togo – are among the nearly 200 journalists on the list of persons identified by the Pegasus Project investigation as potential targets or actual victims of clandestine surveillance by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.

All of these plaintiffs know or have serious grounds for fearing that they were spied on by their governments as a result of having carried out independent journalistic reporting in the public interest.

They include Azerbaijan’s Sevinc Abassova, Togo’s Ferdinand Ayité, Mexico’s Marcela Turati and Alejandra Xanic, India’s Sushant Singh, Siddharth Varadarajan and MK Venu, and Hungary’s Szabolcs Panyi and András Szabó.

One of them, Shubhranshu Choudhary, is one of RSF’s correspondents in India. Several have been publicly attacked by their governments for years. They include Morocco’s Hicham Mansouri and India’s Swati Chaturvedi, who was awarded the RSF Press Freedom Prize for Courage in 2018, the year that RSF referred her case to the UN. Some were even spied on by foreign governments. They include Spain’s Ignacio Cembrero, who was almost certainly the victim of surveillance by Morocco.

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