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HRW says staffer was targeted with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware

Fakih's phone was breached five times between April and August of 2021 [File: Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says one of its senior staff members was targeted five times last year with Pegasus, a spyware made by the Israeli company NSO Group.

The software was used against Lama Fakih, director of the New York-based group’s Beirut office who also oversees its crisis response in countries including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Israel, Myanmar, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria and the United States, HRW said on Wednesday.

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