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Amnesty International has found evidence of journalists in India being targeted with Pegasus spyware. The discovery comes amid what the rights group claims is a "targeted crackdown on freedom of expression."

The website of Israeli company NSO Group which features Pegasus spyware on a smartphone Spyware produced and sold by the Israeli company NSO Group has been found on the phones of journalists, activists and politicians High-profile journalists in India have been targeted with the invasive spyware Pegasus, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday.

The civil rights watchdog carried out forensic investigations on the iPhones belonging to Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of The Wire, and Anand Mangnale, the South Asia editor of The Organized Crime and Corruption Report Project (OCCRP).

"Our latest findings show that increasingly, journalists in India face the threat of unlawful surveillance simply for doing their jobs, alongside other tools of repression including imprisonment under draconian laws, smear campaigns, harassment, and intimidation," Donncha O Cearbhaill, the head of Amnesty's Security Lab, said.

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[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

India is considered south Asia its never been a part of the middle east

[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Israel is not India.

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