Two female activists in Bahrain and Jordan hacked with NSO spyware

Investigation finds mobile phones of human rights defenders were hacked multiple times

The plight of women's rights campaigners in Bahrain and Jordan is in the spotlight after new revelations that two prominent female activists were hacked multiple times by countries using NSO Group spyware.

An investigation by the human rights group Front Line Defenders (FLD) found that the mobile phones of Ebtisam al-Saegh, a Bahraini human rights defender, and Hala Ahed Deeb, who works with human rights and feminist groups in Jordan, had been hacked using NSO's Pegasus spyware.