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Press Release

Serbia

Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Srbija: Vlasti koriste špijunske softvere i forenzičke alate kompanije Cellebrite za hakovanje novinara i aktivista

Policija i obaveštajne službe u Srbiji koriste moderan špijunski softver za mobilne uređaje zajedno sa mobilnim forenzičkim alatima kako bi nezakonito targetirali novinare, ekološke aktiviste i druge pojedince u kampanji tajnog nadzora, otkriva novi izveštaj Amnesty International-a. Izveštaj pod naslovom „Digitalni zatvor: Nadzor i represija civilnog društva u Srbiji“,dokumentuje kako se mobilni forenzički proizvodi izraelske…

16 December 2024
Press Release

Serbia

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists

This press release is also available in Serbian “Srbija: Vlasti koriste špijunske softvere i forenzičke alate kompanije Cellebrite za hakovanje novinara i aktivista“. We have published the report’s Executive Summary as a webpage. The full report is available in PDF format from Amnesty.org. Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside mobile…

16 December 2024
Research

Serbia

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

“A Digital Prison”: Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia

This is the Executive Summary of Amnesty International’s report on surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia. Please click here for the full report in PDF format. You can read the Executive Summary in Serbian, French or Spanish. In February 2024, Slaviša Milanov, an independent journalist from Dimitrovgrad in Serbia who covers local…

16 December 2024
Press Release

Thailand

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Thailand: Dismissal of landmark case a critical and alarming setback in fight against unlawful use of spyware

In response to the Bangkok Civil Court’s dismissal of Thai activist, Jatupat Boonpattararaksa’s lawsuit against NSO Group Technologies Ltd for allegedly failing to prevent him from being targeted with spyware, Amnesty International’s Thailand Researcher Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong said: “The court’s failure to recognise NSO Group’s role in facilitating human rights abuses via the targeting of Thai…

21 November 2024
News

Saudi Arabia

Human Rights Defenders and Activists

UK court says activist can pursue spyware case against Saudi Arabia

On 11 October 2024, the UK’s High Court ruled that Saudi activist Yahya Assiri can continue his legal challenge against Saudi Arabia for being targeted with spyware while living in the UK. Yahya Assiri is a UK-based human rights defender and founder of the human rights organisation ALQST. A long-time friend of Jamal Khashoggi, the…

21 October 2024
Blog

Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Support against digital attacks: how the Security Lab can help

Governments and non-state actors regularly use digital attacks to surveil, harass and intimidate human rights defenders (HRDs), activists, journalists, and other civil society members. Digital attacks can be varied in nature, ranging from malicious software attacks such as spyware, social engineering threats like phishing and impersonation, online harassment and abuse such as gender-based violence, disinformation…

29 May 2024
Press Release

Asia and the Pacific

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Thailand: State-backed digital violence used to silence women and LGBTI activists

Women and LGBTI activists in Thailand are being subjected to an online onslaught of abusive speech laced with misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic language, sexualized content and other forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV), Amnesty International said in a new report released today. The report, “Being Ourselves is Too Dangerous” highlights how women and LGBTI activists…

16 May 2024
Campaigns

United Arab Emirates

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Ahmed Mansoor: the poet who spoke truth to power and paid a heavy price

by Rebecca White “The only way to counter repression is by revealing it. And yes, there is always that possibility that I will go back to jail. But if [activists] do not talk, who will?” This quote is taken from a short film of Ahmed Mansoor back in 2015. A prominent Emirati human rights defender…

12 December 2023
News

Armenia

Armed Conflict

Armenia/Azerbaijan: Pegasus spyware targeted Armenian public figures amid conflict

A joint investigation has revealed that at least twelve Armenian public figures and officials, including journalists and human rights defenders were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware amid conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, between October 2020 and December 2022. Evidence from the investigation, conducted with Amnesty International’s Security Lab, Access Now, the Citizen Lab, CyberHUB-AM, and an independent mobile…

25 May 2023
News

Asia and the Pacific

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

India: Government’s pursuit of new surveillance technology heightens human rights concerns

Responding to a report by the Financial Times that India is searching for alternative spyware technology to replace NSO Group’s Pegasus surveillance software, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of the Security Lab at Amnesty International, said: “It is chilling that instead of respecting human rights and ensuring accountability for those targeted by Pegasus, that the Indian government is…

31 March 2023
News

Europe and Central Asia

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Greece’s surveillance scandal must shake us out of complacency

A surveillance scandal that has smouldered for almost a year erupted this week when the leader of Greece’s main opposition party filed a no-confidence motion against the government after a string of exposés revealed cases of journalists and politicians targeted with spyware and/or under state surveillance. The controversy began in March last year when digital…

26 January 2023
News

Censorship and Freedom of Expression

More than 100,000 people urge UN states to end spyware crisis

UN member states should urgently support a halt on the sale, transfer and use of spyware to end the endemic unlawful surveillance of activists, journalists, lawyers, and political leaders, Amnesty International said today. 107, 273 people from 180 countries and territories signed the organization’s petition demanding UN member states support a global moratorium on surveillance…

28 October 2022