Covid-19 of spyware Pegasus software nightmare continues. This software, which was detected on the phones of 189 journalists, more than 600 statesmen, 64 high-level business people and hundreds of activists around the world last year; It has become an important tool used by states or governments for information spoofing operations.
Pegasus, which the Israeli NSO Group, the developer of the software, did not sell to countries such as the USA on good terms with Israel; was done.
Pegasus’ new target, this time, is a lawyer, a journalist, and a mental health professional:
Among dozens of organizations working to release the software Amnesty International The organization explained the common point of these three people as “activists”. As it is known, Pegasus is used by the government or states to facilitate the follow-up of “people who have different views and act accordingly”.
Dissident was prohibited in Bahrain:
Opposition organizations and groups in the country were outlawed, according to Amnesty. Activists, who have the power to raise awareness and direct the society on various issues with their discourse and actions towards the current government and its decisions, become targets of those governments in countries like Bahrain where there are censoring governments. The people who organize actions that defend the economy, unemployment, femicide, individual fundamental rights and freedoms and raise awareness of the people in this direction are, so to speak, “plugged in” with these software.
What is Pegasus software, who is on the watch list for this software? The answers are in our video below:
Spyware like Pegasus violates human rights:
The first of these is Lawyer Mohamed al-Tajer. He is fighting for the families of the two victims who were tortured to death by the security forces of the current repressive government in 2011.
Another name is Sharifa Swar, Mental Health Specialist, who claims with documents that Bahrain Ministry of Health is a partner in drug trafficking crime. Swar, who detected the first clues about spyware on his phone in June 2021, then left his country of Bahrain and moved to England and applied for asylum.
The name of the third party who is connected to the software’s network and engaged in journalism is not disclosed in accordance with the privacy request. It is known that the journalist in question reported on the events that took place in the country in 2011 and their reflections on the internet.
It is possible to say that those who are followed by Pegasus software in societies under the control of oppressive governments have one more common point. Most of these people take on roles that will raise awareness and mobilize the society.
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