High court finds kingdom responsible for hacking phones of Ghanem al-Masarir and for physical attack on him High court finds kingdom responsible for hacking phones of Ghanem al-Masarir and for physical attack on him A judge has ordered Saudi Arabia to pay more than £3m in damages to a London-based dissident whose phones were targeted with Pegasus spyware . In a judgment handed down on Monday , Judge Pushpinder Saini ruled that Ghanem al-Masarir was entitled to compensation for psychiatric harm