The victims of mercenary spyware were not allowed to give testimony in the European Parliament's civil liberties committee this week, due to wider objections from centre-right lawmakers.
At the hearing on Tuesday (13 May) instead only photos of the victims were on display — spanning Italian journalists to others working for migrant and asylum rights.
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.