UK High Court allows Bahraini activists to sue government over spyware

Political dissidents targeted by the FinSpy surveillance software won the right to sue the Kingdom of Bahrain in a High Court judgment handed down in London on Wednesday.

The trial is set to be one of the first major legal examinations of how authoritarian regimes allegedly use spyware to monitor and persecute dissidents, even when they have moved to Western countries with greater protections for free speech.

Dr. Saeed Shahabi and Moosa Mohammed, activists who have attempted to highlight and …

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