In years past, the award-winning investigative journalist — who reports on government corruption in Azerbaijan, an oil-and-gas-rich former republic of the USSR — had been blackmailed, arrested, imprisoned and forbidden to leave her country.NSO Group says it sells Pegasus to vetted governments for “the sole purpose of preventing and investigating terror and serious crime.” But Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus chronicles how a groundbreaking investigation by 17 news organizations including FRONTLINE, led by the French journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories with technical support from Amnesty International’s Security Lab and additional assistance from Citizen Lab, found that Pegasus had been used on human rights activists, the wife and fiancée of the murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and others.It’s heinous.”Ismayilova’s is just one of the stories that unfolds in Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, which premieres Tues., Jan. 3, 2023, and Tues., Jan. 10, 2023, on PBS and online.To journalist Paul Radu of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Ismayilova’s investigative reporting made her “a prime target” for her country’s government, which has cracked down on dissent and is often described as a dictatorship.The stories that unfold in Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, of journalists, activists and others targeted in countries around the world, raise tough questions about the largely unregulated spyware industry."