{"id":1475781,"date":"2024-02-01T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/jordan-targeting-lawyers-jouranlists-israeli-nso-spyware-report"},"modified":"2024-02-01T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:00:47","slug":"dozens-in-jordan-targeted-by-authorities-using-nso-spyware-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/01\/dozens-in-jordan-targeted-by-authorities-using-nso-spyware-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens in Jordan targeted by authorities using NSO spyware, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Findings suggest Jordan is relying on cyberweapon to quash dissent and its use is \u2018staggeringly widespread\u2019<\/p><p>About three dozen journalists, lawyers and human rights workers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jordan\">Jordan<\/a> have been targeted by authorities using powerful spyware made by Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/jan\/04\/management-of-five-firms-linked-to-pegasus-maker-nso-is-moved-to-london\">NSO Group<\/a> amid a broad crackdown on press freedoms and political participation, according to a report by the lobbying group Access Now.<\/p><p>The information suggests the Jordanian government has used the Israeli cyberweapon against members of civil society, including at least one American citizen living in Jordan, between 2019 and September 2023.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/jordan-targeting-lawyers-jouranlists-israeli-nso-spyware-report\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/jordan-targeting-lawyers-jouranlists-israeli-nso-spyware-report\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings suggest Jordan is relying on cyberweapon to quash dissent and its use is \u2018staggeringly widespread\u2019About three dozen journalists, lawyers and human rights workers in Jordan have been targeted by authorities using powerful spyware made by Israel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38102,4483,287,6,82,580,32254,1258,1147,142,369,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476514,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475781\/revisions\/1476514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}