Bryan Fogel’s documentary “The Dissident” (2020) reconstructs the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 02 October 2018. After dismembering him, the agents of the Saudi government had dissolved Khashoggi’s body in acid, so that the Turkish officials were unable to find Khashoggi’s body.
As Peter Bradshaw asserts, “Turkey’s president blew the gaff on how the dissident Saudi author was killed, providing plentiful material for this gripping documentary”.
According to Wikipedia, “the film struggled to find a distributor for eight months and was not able to run on a large streaming platform like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. It is widely believed this was due to those platforms' fear of offending the Saudi Arabian government and possibly losing subscribers”.
Links:
“The Dissident review – inside track on grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi”, by Peter Bradshaw, Guardian, 05 March 2021:
The Dissident – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dissident
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