# Pegasus Project reporting names UAE among NSO Group clients

Date: 2021

## The fact

In July 2021 the Pegasus Project reported that the UAE was among NSO Group clients whose software appeared in a leaked list of potential targets, including journalists and activists.

## Context

Amnesty, Forbidden Stories and newsrooms reported. The UAE denied abuse. [Mohamed bin Zayed](/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan) was security principal. A leak is not a trial. Citizen Lab-style technical reports are neighbouring if separately dated.

Mansoor 2018 is a completed sentence.

The president of the United Arab Emirates is elected by the Federal Supreme Council of the seven emirates and is, in this case, also Ruler of Abu Dhabi and supreme commander of the armed forces. He does not write UNFCCC consensus texts by himself, IAEA operating licences, Israeli Knesset statutes, or UN panel reports.

## Evidence and sources

Emirates News Agency carries the official instrument or communique. The Guardian records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

Denial is part of the cluster. Infection of every listed number is not established here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: July 2021 Pegasus Project reporting naming the UAE among NSO clients, independently reported, with UAE denial.

Not established: that every number on a leaked list was infected, or a completed criminal judgment against the president.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Newsrooms reported NSO client status. NSO built the tool. A leak is not a conviction.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Pegasus Project reporting names UAE among NSO Group clients, not a later speech about Pegasus Project reporting names UAE among NSO Group clients.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Pegasus Project reporting names UAE among NSO Group clients on 2021-07-19 is not a licence to treat every later Emirates News Agency communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Pegasus Project reporting names UAE among NSO Group clients into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was UAE security principal. Newsrooms reported NSO client status. NSO built the tool. A leak is not a conviction. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan: https://factrail.ai/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection
- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation

## Sources

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus
- https://www.wam.ae/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-internet-shutdown-tools