UAE Government

UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder

2018-04-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

On April 22, 2018, UAE government authorities install NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, during her detention at Dubai International Airport. Forensic analysis by Citizen Lab and the University of Toronto reveals that after Elatr …

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UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware

2016-08-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

On August 10-11, 2016, Ahmed Mansoor, an internationally recognized UAE-based human rights defender and recipient of the Martin Ennals Award, receives suspicious SMS messages on his iPhone promising “new secrets” about detainees tortured in UAE jails. Instead of clicking the malicious …

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