International human rights groups called on Monday for authorities in El Salvador to open an investigation into allegations that journalists and activists had their phones hacked and implanted with the sophisticated spyware Pegasus.
In mid-January, The Citizen Lab, which studies spyware at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, released a report saying that the cell phones of nearly three dozen journalists and activists, several of whom were investigating alleged state corruption, have been hacked since mid-2020 with the Israeli-designed spyware.
