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  • The Big Issue

    A tough time to be talking truth to power

    Mar 01, 2021 3 minutes
    Words: Steven MacKenzie @stevenmackenzie
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    On October 2 2018 at 1.14pm local time Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He was never seen again.

    The Dissident tells the story of how Khashoggi went from being a trusted insider of the Saudi government to one of its biggest critics – and one targeted for assassination.

    “Jamal’s murder was able to happen because the Saudis didn’t believe that there would be true accountability, and there wasn’t,” says director Bryan Fogel.

    His film is a resolute and relentless presentation of the

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