Four British human rights advocates and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed a report with London's Metropolitan Police that they hope will lead to charges against Pegasus trader NSO Group.
NSO Group faces legal action after Pegasus was used against British activists
The activists, who say their communications were snooped on by the autocratic states, compiled their complaints with the help of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), a non-governmental organization which took the matter to the Met on their behalf. They accuse NSO, along with a selection of its key partners, of being behind alleged spyware infections dating back to 2018.
Anas Altikriti, founder and CEO of the Cordoba Foundation; journalist Azzam Tamimi; Mohammed Kozbar, Chairman of the Finsbury Park Mosque; and Bahraini activist Yusuf Al Jamri all claim the group violated the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA) and the National Security Act 2023 (NSA) by allegedly allowing the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to compromise their phones with Pegasus spyware.
Kozbar and Tamimi claim their devices were infected with Pegasus in 2018. A year later, NSO Group was bought by the now liquidated London-based private equity firm Novalpina Capital. After that, Al Jamri and Altikriti claim that their devices were also infected.
