Bahrain: Cybercrime case

UK-registered charity Privacy International (PI) has made a criminal complaint to the National Crime Agency’s cybercrime unit, seeking an investigation into what it says is the unlawful surveillance of three Bahrainis living in the UK. PI says the Bahraini authorities are using FinFisher malware, supplied by British company Gamma, to observe Moosa Abd-Ali Ali, Jaafar Al-Hasabi and Saeed Al-Shehabi, political dissidents who were all granted asylum by Britain. PI said in a statement that it filed the complaint on 13 October, arguing that the actions of the Bahraini authorities represent an unlawful interception of communications under section 1 of the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.