Responding to the news that the European Parliament’s Daphne Caruana Prize for Journalism has been awarded to the Forbidden Stories Consortium, of which Amnesty International was the technical partner, for the Pegasus Project which exposed the systematic targeting of human rights activists, journalists and lawyers with surveillance software, Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office said:
“The Pegasus Project revealed that journalists, activists, and lawyers around the world are being targeted by governments who want to silence and intimidate them. This prize provides important recognition for those whose work is under attack, and those journalists and technologists who brought the shady practices of surveillance companies and their tools to light.” (Eve Geddie)