Britain's Supreme Court has ruled, by a narrow 3–2 majority, that Bahrain cannot claim state immunity to shut down a lawsuit brought by two dissidents who allege their computers in the UK were infected with spyware in 2011. The plaintiffs — journalist Saeed Shehabi and refugee Moosa Mohammed, both resident in Britain — accuse the Bahraini government of using FinSpy malware to log their keystrokes and monitor their activities remotely, and are seeking damages for psychiatric harm. The ruling sets a significant precedent by confirming that foreign states can be sued in UK courts for remote surveillance targeting people on British soil, even when the hacking is directed from abroad.