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Activist Iyad el-Baghdadi on 'CIA warning'

03/06/2019 GMT

Iyad El-Baghdadi

BBC News - HARDtalk, Iyad El-Baghdadi

Stephen Sackur speaks to human rights activist Iyad El-Baghdadi.

HARDtalk's 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 using social media to challenge what he calls the Arab Tyrants. After the demise of the Arab Spring is his a lost cause?

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