Szabolcs Panyi

Direkt36 has revealed that during János Lázár's administration, the Information Office was monitoring OLAF staff investigating suspicious projects linked to the son-in-law of Viktor Orbán. They tried to find these documents when people from other services invaded the office's headquarters in the summer of 2018.

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Spyware surveillance of journalists in Europe and the ongoing fight for accountability. Analysis by Jamie Wiseman, Szabolcs Panyi Konstantina Maltepioti and Thodoris Chondrogiannos (Friedrich Naumann Foundation, International Press Institute)

Deze week gaat een controversiële Hongaarse overheidsinstelling van start: het Bureau voor Soevereiniteitsbescherming. Dat moet volgens de regering...

Latest episode of MFRR In Focus interviews Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi about the potential impact of new law The situation for Hungary’s embattled independent media is about to become even more challenging. On 12 December, the Hungarian…

S maďarským investigativním novinářem působícím v nezávislých médiích Direkt 36 a VSquare jsme hovořili o metodách, kterými Orbánův režim komplikuje práci nezávislým médiím a proč je přesto potřeba v práci vytrvat. Vytisknout „Nechci si zase tak moc…

Szabolcs Panyi, investigative journalist, Direkt36 and VSquare, HungaryInterview by Zita Szopkó, 2023Camera operator: Ferenc SebőEditor: Ferenc Sebő© Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, 2023.© 2020 Justice for Journalists, All rights reserved.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has urged member states to stop misusing the argument of national security protection to spy on journalists and enable media professionals to carry out their work without fear. OSCE and…

Viktor Orban at European People's Party Summit in Brussels, June 2017. Source: European People's Party / Wikimedia Commons, CC 2.0 On July 18, 2021, Direkt36 published the article titled “Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with…

The Hungarian broker company involved in the purchase of the spyware that hacked phones launched a series of lawsuits against us and other media outlets, but lost all of them. In the meantime, however, real investigation into the circumstances of the…

Watch Szabolcs Panyi, one of the Hungarian targets of the Pegasus spyware and a participating journalist of the Pegasus Project, an international investigation into NSO Group’s spyware led by Forbidden Stories with the technical support of Amnesty…

19 June 2023 Dear Ministers, Dear Permanent Representatives, We, the undersigned 80 civil society and journalists organisations, are writing to voice our concerns on the worrying developments related to the draft Regulation on the European Media…

Spionagesoftware Pegasus wordt door vele, ook Europese, overheden gebruikt om burgers te controleren. Honderden journalisten, mensenrechtenactivisten, rechtsgeleerden en politici over de hele wereld werden gehackt met behulp van het programma. Deze…

What does it feel like to know that your government has been able to access every single message on your phone? Last year, the Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi found out that he'd been hacked using Pegasus spyware. This week we hear…

What is particularly worrying about the Orban government’s splurge on spooks and top-level surveillance technology is that it comes at a time when serious social unrest is brewing. In recent weeks, millions of Hungarians received an official survey…

Source: Péter Somogyi/Telex.hu Direkt36 has revealed that the cyber weapon was purchased by the Hungarian state through a broker company that later became partly owned by Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér’s close confidant, László Tasnádi, who once…

Direkt36 has revealed that the cyber weapon was purchased by the Hungarian state through a broker company that later became partly owned by Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér’s close confidant, László Tasnádi, who once worked for the Communist state…

Tal Shalev interviews Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi, on his involvement in Project Pegasus.***JPC is giving the journalists covering Israel access to Israeli decision makers, analysts, doctors, scientists and experts in various fields including…