{"id":9166,"date":"2026-01-26T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:48:18","slug":"ghanem-al-masarir-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/01\/26\/ghanem-al-masarir-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanem al-Masarir\u00a0v KSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haroon Siddique<em>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<\/em>Stephanie Kirchgaessner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/26\/saudi-arabia-ordered-pay-london-dissident-pegasus-spying-ghanem-al-masarir\">The Guardian, Saudi Arabia ordered to pay \u00a33m to London dissident over Pegasus spying, 26 Jan 2026<\/a>. &#8220;In\u00a0a judgment handed down on Monday, Judge Pushpinder Saini ruled that Ghanem al-Masarir was entitled to compensation for psychiatric harm sustained after discovering that his iPhones had been hacked, as well as a physical attack on him outside Harrods in central London.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judgement is here: . <a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/ewhc\/kb\/2026\/119?court=ewhc%2Fkb#start-of-document\">The National Archives, Find Case Law, Ghanem Al-Masarir v Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Neutral Citation Number[2026] EWHC 119 (KB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haroon Siddique\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian, Saudi Arabia ordered to pay \u00a33m to London dissident over Pegasus spying, 26 Jan 2026. &#8220;In\u00a0a judgment handed down on Monday, Judge Pushpinder Saini ruled that Ghanem al-Masarir was entitled to compensation for psychiatric harm sustained after discovering that his iPhones had been hacked, as well as a physical attack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[937,277],"tags":[279,55],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ksa","category-saudi-arabia","tag-ksa","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9176,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions\/9176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}