Justin Shilad/CPJ Senior Middle East and North Africa Researcher
In a mid-2020 Washington Post opinion piece, Lebanese Al-Jazeera broadcast journalist Ghada Oueiss described hackers stealing private photos and videos from her phone and posting them online. The leak resulted in a sharp escalation of online attacks, Oueiss told CPJ in a January 2021 call. Since the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, she said she fears that the online attacks may foreshadow a physical one.
Al-Jazeera’s Ghada Oueiss on hacking, harassment, and Jamal Khashoggi