{"id":989388,"date":"2026-02-02T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989388"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:50:53","slug":"uk-based-youtuber-hacked-and-beaten-for-criticising-saudi-leadership-awarded-4-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/uk-based-youtuber-hacked-and-beaten-for-criticising-saudi-leadership-awarded-4-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"UK-based YouTuber hacked and beaten for criticising Saudi leadership awarded $4.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Saudi-born comedian who has a massive following on YouTube has won a major legal battle after a UK court ruled that Saudi Arabia was behind the hacking of his phone and a subsequent assault in London.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanem al-Masarir, 45, had amassed hundreds of millions of views for his satirical videos criticising the Saudi Arabian royal family. But his online popularity also made him a target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Saudi-born comedian who has a massive following on YouTube has won a major legal battle after a UK court ruled that Saudi Arabia was behind the hacking of his phone and a subsequent assault in London. Ghanem al-Masarir, 45, had amassed hundreds of millions of views for his satirical videos criticising the Saudi Arabian royal family. But his online popularity also made him a target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}