Thread by @marwasf

BREAKING: Palestinian human rights defender Salah Hammouri, together with @FIDH and @LDH_Fr, are suing NSO Group in France today for his unlawful surveillance using #Pegasus spyware.

Salah is a French-Palestinian human rights defender, lawyer, and former political prisoner. 1/

Salah's device was hacked in April 2021. In October 2021, @FrontLineHRD uncovered his hacking and other 5 Palestinian activists using #Pegasus, confirmed by @citizenlab and @AmnestyTech. 2/

frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement-r…

3 of the 6 hacked activists work at the Palestinian human rights groups that the Israeli government designated on October 19, 2021 as “terrorist organizations”, including @Addameer where Salah works.

The targeting occured before Israel’s designation. 3/
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Salah’s hacking is part of a larger campaign to crackdown on Palestinian civil society. On October 18, a day before the designation, Israel's interior minister revoked Salah's residency status for “breach of allegiance to the State of Israel”. 4/

https://twitter.com/Addameer/status/1450054139099197443?s=20&t=jPnm6Mh0Gf4WN3lO6FM75A

Most recently, on 7 March 2022, Israeli occupation forces stormed Salah's home in the early hours of the morning, arbitrarily arresting him (again) and transferring him to Ofer Israeli Military Prison. 5/
addameer.org/news/4716

Pegasus victims deserve justice. From Palestine to France, #NSO Group has been enabling human rights abuses on a mass scale without consequences.

@accessnow welcomes this new legal action by @fidh_en and @LDH_Fr to hold this serial abuser accountable. 6/6
accessnow.org/legal-action-n…