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HARDtalk: Abdullah Alaoudh - Senior Fellow, Georgetown University

27/11/2018

Abdullah Alaoudh - Senior Fellow, Georgetown University

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Abdullah Alaoudh - Senior Fellow, Georgetown University

Stephen Sackur speaks to exiled Saudi academic Abdullah Alaoudh about.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Abdullah Alaoudh, an exiled Saudi academic whose father is facing charges that carry a death sentence. Can anything challenge Saudi authoritarianism?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Abdullah Alaoudh, a Saudi exile whose father is facing charges that carry a death sentence. President Trump says he doesn't know whether Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and frankly he doesn't seem to care. It is therefore perhaps safe to assume then that he also doesn't care about the hundreds of clerics, intellectuals, and dissident activists locked up by MBS's security forces. Can anyone or anything challenge Saudi authoritarianism?

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