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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique and Stephanie Kirchgaessner

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

The satirist Ghanem al-Masarir stands in front of a banner that reads: 'Justice for Jamal Khashoggi'
The satirist Ghanem al-Masarir at a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in west London in 2018, calling for justice for Jamal Khashoggi. Photograph: Robin Millard/AFP/Getty Images

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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