Norway blocked Saudi request to give diplomatic immunity to security team
Norwegian authorities alerted activist Iyad al-Baghdadi to incident, which came weeks before Khashoggi s murder, local media reports
Activist Iyad el-Baghdadi believes the request for diplomatic immunity was linked to his relationship with slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi (AFP) By Published date: 15 December 2020 15:06 UTC | Last update: 3 months 3 weeks ago
Norway refused to give a Saudi security team diplomatic immunity and alerted prominent Oslo-based human rights activist Iyad al-Baghdadi of the incident, it has been revealed.
In summer 2018, Saudi Arabia asked Norway to give diplomatic immunity to a 10-man security team it deployed to Oslo, but the Norweigan foreign ministry refused, suspicious over the number and intentions, Dagbladet news outlet reported.
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The tanker vessel, CHAMPION PULA, departed from Lagos in Nigeria on 25 September. After 10 days the vessel arrived Las Palmas for loading operations. To everyone’s surprise four stowaways were discovered by the Spanish port authorties sitting on the vessel’s rudder. For over 10 days they had survived on the open sea, close to the propeller, with minimal food and water. Gard’s member, Champion Tankers AS of Bergen, was unaware of their presence on the vessel as it was not possible to access the rudder trunk from the ship.
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WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) and City, University of London, are now entering the second phase of a major research study into sexual harassment in the media workplace. In this second phase, the survey will look at the extent of this problem in select Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
This phase of the research will run from November 2020 until March 2021, following an initial phase which collected responses from Africa, specifically Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
An initial study conducted by WIN in 2018 identified a significant gap in the available data on sexual harassment in media, specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab Region and Southeast Asia. This new study will look specifically at those regions to better understand the extent of sexual harassment in the media industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab Region and S