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Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3m to London dissident over Pegasus spying

The Guardian - Media · Haroon Siddique and Stephanie Kirchgaessner · last updated

High court finds kingdom responsible for hacking phones of Ghanem al-Masarir and for physical attack on him

A judge has ordered Saudi Arabia to pay more than £3m in damages to a London-based dissident whose phones were targeted with Pegasus spyware.

In a judgment handed down on Monday, Judge Pushpinder Saini ruled that Ghanem al-Masarir was entitled to compensation for psychiatric harm sustained after discovering that his iPhones had been hacked, as well as a physical attack on him outside Harrods in central London.

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