{"id":6739,"date":"2022-08-19T19:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/british-judge-rules-dissident-can-sue-saudi-arabia-for-pegasus-hacking\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:38:29","slug":"british-judge-rules-dissident-can-sue-saudi-arabia-for-pegasus-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/british-judge-rules-dissident-can-sue-saudi-arabia-for-pegasus-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"British judge rules dissident can sue Saudi Arabia for Pegasus hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanem Almasarir\u2019s victory opens way for other hacking victims in UK to bring cases against foreign governments<\/p>\n<p>A British judge has ruled that a case against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia brought by a dissident satirist who was targeted with spyware can proceed, a decision that has been hailed as precedent-setting and one that could allow other hacking victims in Britain to sue foreign governments who order such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The case against Saudi Arabia was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/28\/saudi-arabia-accused-of-hacking-london-based-dissident-ghanem-almasarir\">brought by Ghanem Almasarir<\/a>, a prominent satirist granted asylum in the UK, who is a frequent critic of the Saudi royal family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/british-judge-rules-dissident-ghanem-almasarir-can-sue-saudi-arabia-for-pegasus-hacking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/92cc4b3a33ee8e265d9e3c8eafe51323645dbae3\/0_48_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6c73d401b1c731a13bf68ac2feb442f8\" title=\"British judge rules dissident can sue Saudi Arabia for Pegasus hacking\" \/>Ghanem Almasarir\u2019s victory opens way for other hacking victims in UK to bring cases against foreign governments<br \/>\nA British judge has ruled that a case against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia brought by a dissident satirist who was targeted with spyware can proceed, a decision that has been hailed as precedent-setting and one that could allow other hacking victims in Britain to sue foreign governments who order such attacks.<br \/>\nThe case against Saudi Arabia was brought by Ghanem Almasarir, a prominent satirist granted asylum in the UK, who is a frequent critic of the Saudi royal family. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanem Almasarir\u2019s victory opens way for other hacking victims in UK to bring cases against foreign governments A British judge has ruled that a case against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia brought by a dissident satirist who was targeted with spyware can proceed, a decision that has been hailed as precedent-setting and one that could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/british-judge-rules-dissident-can-sue-saudi-arabia-for-pegasus-hacking\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">British judge rules dissident can sue Saudi Arabia for Pegasus hacking<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}