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The untold story of the murder that shook the world. - The Dissident
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Title: The Dissident

Release Date: 25 Dec 2020

Runtime: 1h 59m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Diamond Docs, Human Rights Foundation

Production Companies: Diamond Docs, Human Rights Foundation

Overview: When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.

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Average Vote: 7.194 (103 votes)

Cast

  • Self (archive footage): Jamal Khashoggi
  • Self - Interviewee: Omar Abdulaziz
  • Self (Footage): Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud
  • Self - Public Prosecutor: İrfan Fidan
  • Self - Interviewee: Agnès Callamard
  • Self - Interviewee: Hatice Cengiz
  • Self - Interviewee: John O. Brennan
  • Self - Interviewee: Fahrettin Altun
  • Self - Interviewee: Anthony J. Ferrante
  • Self - Interviewee: Abdulhamit Gul
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