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BBC execution film

Thursday 21 March 1996 19:02 EST
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BBC execution film

The BBC plans to show film of a Saudi Arabian criminal being beheaded with a sword in a Panorama special about Saudi Arabia on 1 April. The showing could sour Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia, which is already angry about a Home Office decision to reconsider the extradition of the dissident Mohammed Al-Masari.

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