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Outlook: 25/01/2011

25/01/2011

BBC World Service - Outlook, 25/01/2011

The hunger-striking journalist freed from prison by Tunisia's new caretaker government

FAHEM BOUKADOUS
Tunisia's caretaker government has released political prisoners detained under President Ben Ali's regime. Among them was the journalist Fahem Boukadous. He was arrested after reporting on protests against unemployment in 2008 and sentenced to four years in prison. He tells Matthew Bannister  what it was like to be confined to a cell measuring 3 metres by 3 metres and describes how it feels to be a free man. 

POACHER TURNED GAMEKEEPER
Felipe Vibas Arias was born on the virtually unspoiled Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica which is a haven for the country's wildlife. In 1974, the government created the Corcovado National Park there, but in doing so they evicted 160 families who had settled there, including Felipe's. He turned to poaching to survive. Outlook's reporter Laura Hubber finds out how this notorious poacher eventually became one of Costa Rica's most sought-after nature guides.


CAROL TOPOLSKI
The British psychotherapist and author Carol Topolski is currently writing a novel about death row and, as part of her research, went to the USA to meet five men who have been condemned to death. Last year the US executed 46 people, 17 of them in Texas. Carol tells Matthew what she discovered about the people she met on Death Row and the impact it had on her. 

Carol Topolski's new novel Do No Harm is out now published by Penguin books

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