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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Saudi dissident awarded £3m damages threatens enforcement action if he is not paid

Ghanem al-Masarir at a protest outside the Natural History Museum in London after the disappearance of Jamal Kashoggi
Ghanem al-Masarir has suffered from severe depression since he was attacked in central London seven years ago. Photograph: John Lubbock

A London-based Saudi dissident who a judge decided should receive more than £3m in damages from the kingdom for assault and the hacking of his phone has insisted that it must pay up or face enforcement action.

Mr Justice Saini ruled that the Saudi government infected the phone of Ghanem al-Masarir with Pegasus spyware and, while surveillance was continuing, in 2018, its agents attacked him outside Harrods in central London.

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