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UK Court Awards £3m to Saudi Dissident Over Pegasus Spyware Incident

UK Court Awards £3m to Saudi Dissident Over Pegasus Spyware Incident

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ThreatCluster •March 12, 2026 at 13:27 UTC

The English High Court has ordered Saudi Arabia to pay £3m to Ghanem al-Masarir, a London-based dissident, after determining that the kingdom hacked his phone with Pegasus spyware and orchestrated a physical attack against him. The court acknowledged the psychiatric harm suffered by al-Masarir following the 2018 hacking incident.

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