Israeli Spy Tech Used Against Daughter of Man Who Inspired “Hotel Rwanda”

Pegasus software made by Israeli firm NSO Group was used to spy on the daughter of imprisoned dissident Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions during the 1994 genocide were dramatized in a 2004 film starring Don Cheadle.
 

• A cell phone belonging to the daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, an outspoken critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his authoritarian government, was compromised multiple times using NSO’s Pegasus spyware in the aftermath of Rusesabagina’s kidnapping by Rwanda in August last year.
• Rwandan opposition figures abroad may also have been targeted with Pegasus. One of them was arrested in Mozambique in May and his whereabouts are unknown.
• Evidence suggests Rwanda also sought to spy on high-ranking political figures and diplomats in neighboring countries, as well as lawyers and journalists.