Pegasus misuse highlights the need for regulation of digital spying tools
Governments must work together to better delineate uncrossable lines for such software
Calls to release former Front Line Defenders employee from Bahrain prison to Ireland
Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja serving life sentence for role in peaceful uprising in 2011
Spyware Pegasus found on hacked mobile phones of four human rights defenders
Inclusion of several Jordanian women among targets ‘merits special attention’
Front Line Defenders agrees deal for new HQ in south Dublin
Human rights body chaired by Denis O’Brien relocates to Avoca Court in Blackrock village
Concern activist’s phone infected with spyware during Dublin conference
Ebtisam al-Saegh’s phone hacked by Pegasus software, human rights groups say
Kremlin urged to end attack on Memorial civil rights group
UN rapporteur Mary Lawlor hails work of organisation blacklisted as a ‘foreign agent’
Surveillance tools like Pegasus should not be for sale
Net Results: Targeting of Palestinian activists’ phones is the latest evidence of abuse
Irish NGO finds spyware on phones of Palestinian activists
Front Line Defenders found traces of the Pegasus programme on six phones
The Irish Times view on human rights activists: the good fight
Traditional tools of state repression, such as restrictive laws and intimidation, are today supplemented by increasingly common online tactics
Is data privacy a basic right in the EU? Maybe it’s time to find out
Net Results: An Oireachtas committee heard that the current social media model should be banned
Fears grow in Sri Lanka for refugees targeted by mob violence
More than 1,000 refugees, mainly Ahmadi Muslims from Pakistan, under police protection
Social media ban deepens sense of isolation in times of tragedy
Net Results: Terrorism is no excuse for shutting down social media
Crimean Tatars stand firm against Russian occupation of homeland
Five years of Kremlin rule have brought repression to Muslim community
Human rights defenders memorial planned for Iveagh House grounds
Statue will honour 3,500 killed for defending human rights
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