Under surveillance: local corruption and a journalist spied on in Serbia

Under surveillance: local corruption and a journalist spied on in Serbia Credit: Stefan Pavic Spied on, intimidated, and harassed: Serbian journalists began investigating suspicious public contracts in Dimitrovgrad, drawing the ire of the mayor. In 2024, one of them was taken to the police station and had their phone hacked. With Forbidden Stories, their silenced […]

Moroccan Cash Machine

Moroccan Cash Machine Français English Pursuing Omar Radi’s investigation On March 3, 2022, journalist Omar Radi was sentenced to six years in prison on unrelated charges of “rape” and “espionage.” At the time of his arrest, the Moroccan journalist, whose phone was infected with Pegasus in 2020, had been working on an investigation into land […]

Pegasus Project

Pegasus Project Français English A worldwide collaboration to counter a global crime An unprecedented leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected for surveillance by the customers of the israeli company NSO Group shows how this technology has been systematically abused for years. The Forbidden Stories consortium and Amnesty International had access to records of […]