Iyad el-Baghdadi

A man poses for a photo against a tree, wearing a red jacket

Khashoggi colleague: ‘They took me away and they told me that I’m the target of a Saudi threat’

İyad el-Baghdadi rose to prominence tweeting and writing during the Arab Spring uprising. He fled to Norway in 2014, but after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, he found himself also targeted.

A tweet from Iyad el-Baghdadi, a prominent online activist who's now seeking asylum in Norway.

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