NEW YORK, Jan 26 — A regional director of Human Rights Watch who investigated Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza and the Beirut port explosion had her phones hacked with spyware made by the Israeli company NSO, the group said today.
Fakih’s work includes exposing rights abuses in armed conflict, unrest and humanitarian disasters, and “may have attracted the attention of various governments, including some that are suspected NSO clients”, the rights group said. HRW said it was told by NSO that the company was not aware of any active NSO customer using its technology against an HRW staff member, and that it would assess whether an investigation was warranted.
“However, any call to suspend these life-saving technologies until such a structure exists is naive and would only benefit the terrorists, paedophiles and hardened criminals who will evade surveillance and apprehension.”
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