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� Hold the companies who develop and distribute these technologies, and their investors,
accountable for their failure to respect human rights and for the role they play in enabling abusive
end uses, and demand transparency from said companies around their clients and practices, in
particular regarding their data collection and processing practices;
� Reaffirm protections for all journalists and media workers and safeguard press freedom, by
recognizing that journalists and media workers are not legitimate surveillance targets for practicing
their work;
� Ensure prompt, impartial, and independent investigation into the hacking allegations and
establish accountability and remedy mechanisms for surveillance victims;
� Fully cooperate with European Court of Human Rights, the UN, and all regional and
international investigative bodies and accountability mechanisms with respect to investigation of
Pegasus hacking and other unlawful surveillance;
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Impose sanctions on NSO, its staff, and all of their technologies as a threat to human rights, media
freedom, peace, and security.
Russia (in addition to the recommendations for all other states)
� End its illegal aggression against Ukraine and attacks on independent media, civil society, and
regime critics in Russia and in exile;
� Comply with international human rights obligations, including in relation to the rights of
freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association. This includes ending all digital and
physical repression including censorship, surveillance, designation of organizations as foreign
agents, undesirable, terrorist/extremist, criminalization of protected speech, and targeting and
incarceration of political prisoners, as well as revoking the laws that enable this repression.
If you are a journalist, activist, human rights defender, or another member of civil society, and you
suspect you may be a victim of spyware, please contact Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline at
help@accessnow.org (we speak Russian and Ukrainian, among other languages).
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