Szabolcs Panyi

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In this episode, our host Joshua Coe speaks with Szabolcs Panyi, an investigative journalist with Direkt36 and VSquare, about his recent cross-border investigation shedding light on how Hungary reportedly surveilled EU anti-fraud investigators.

Kolem Maďarska je v EU znovu živo. V polovině jeho unijního předsednictví vyvolal premiér Viktor Orbán svými vystoupeními ve Štrasburku vzrušenou debatu v Evropském parlamentu. Unijní politiky nenechává v klidu pokračující blokování pomoci Ukrajině

In the past few years, Hungary has seen a surge in new investments from Chinese companies in the EV industry. Chinese battery and EV makers have been attracted by the favorable political climate and generous state support. Additionally, Hungary and…

The situation for Hungary’s embattled independent media is about to become even more challenging. On 12 December, the Hungarian parliament voted to pass the Protection of Sovereignty Act. It was debated for less than two weeks and passed without any…

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.

In this conversation with RevDem Editor Robert Nemeth, Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi talks about the Hungarian government’s response to the war in Ukraine, why it is not willing to counter Russian infiltration in Hungary, the reasons behind the…

How did Viktor Orban turn from an avid anti-Russian politician to the biggest friend of Putin in the European Union?Why did Hungarian government create its own “oligarchs” and are Hungarian media independent? Why the EU can’t do much about it? How…

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…

In this episode of The VoiCEE podcast Anna Gielewska, editor-in-chief of Vsquare.org – a cross-border network in Central Europe – speaks with Szabolcs Panyi, a leading investigative journalist at Direkt36, about what he and his colleagues have…

Europa geldt als vrijhaven voor mensen die vluchten van repressie. Hier wordt verondersteld dat persvrijheid, gelijk met waarden als vrijheid van meningsuiting en expressie, goed zijn gewaarborgd. Maar is dat wel zo? Hoe veilig ben je als je overal…

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…

The third episode of our podcast series Foreign Authoritarian-State Disinformation: Global Perspectives is out now! The initiative is supported by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with Meridian International…

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…

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…

What the f*ck geht eigentlich in Ungarn ab? Wir haben da nicht so richtig Ahnung, aber Szabolcs Panyi schon. Der ungarische Investigativjournalist der Rechercheplattform Direkt 36 hat im Interview über die Parlamentswahlen und die Lage in Ungarn rund…

Der Einfluss staatlicher Überwachung auf die Pressefreiheit nimmt immer weiter zu. Eine wachsende Zahl von Staaten missbraucht digitale Überwachungstechnologien zum Ausspähen und zur Verfolgung von Journalistinnen und Menschenrechtsverteidigern. Das…

Tommy and Ben talk about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, Mike Pompeo and the missing whisky, Sudan and Ethiopia, big climate change news, the US military’s new covid vaccine rule, China’s Olympic lies, and some dystopian space…

Die Enthüllungen rund um das so genannte „Pegasus Projekt“ reißen nicht ab. Worum geht es? Pegasus ist eine Spionagesoftware, die von der israelischen Tech-Firma „NSO“ entwickelt wurde. Sie gilt als eines der mächtigsten Überwachungswerkzeuge der…