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The Dissident
Maria Duarte watches a chilling and powerful documentary about the assassination of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi

The Dissident
Directed by Bryan Fogel

IN THE wake of the release of a US intelligence report, which confirmed that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, comes a chillingly powerful and candid documentary on the questions — how, why and by whom — surrounding his assassination.

On October 2 2018 Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document to be able to remarry, and never came out — a plot straight out of a John Le Carre novel or a James Bond film.

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