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Iyad el-Baghdadi - Human rights activist

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC NewsLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

Stephen Sackur speaks to human rights activist Iyad el-Baghdadi. Six months after the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, three of Khashoggi’s friends and associates received warnings that their lives could be in danger. The original source was the CIA. One of those warned is Iyad el-Baghdadi, a long-time critic of Arab authoritarian regimes who lives in political asylum in Norway, and uses social media to challenge what he calls the Arab tyrants. After the demise of the Arab Spring is his a lost cause? Show less

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Presenter:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
Iyad el-Baghdadi

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