
The main opposition group in the country is outlawed. And in a further twist, seized on by critics of normalisation, the mobile phones of nine Bahraini activists were hacked in 2020 using “Pegasus” spyware made by the Israeli firm NSO Group, according to researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. Bahrain’s government last year called those claims “unfounded and misguided”, saying it was committed to individuals’ rights and freedoms.
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