LONDON (Reuters) – Bahrain cannot claim state immunity to block a lawsuit brought in Britain by two dissidents who say its government hacked their laptops with spyware, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.
Saeed Shehabi and Moosa Mohammed say Bahrain infected their computers with surveillance software called FinSpy, which allowed agents to take control of their laptops, access their files and monitor their communications.
Bahrain denies hacking Shehabi and Mohammed’s laptops. The state’s bid to claim state immunity was refused by the High Court last year and an appeal against that ruling was dismissed on Friday.
(Reporting by Sam Tobin; editing by William James)
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