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Farzad Bazoft executed in Iraq as spy

Title
Farzad Bazoft executed in Iraq as spy
Genre
News report; Interview; Special
TX Date
15 Mar 1990
Year of production
1990
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Duration
00:06:37
Description
Margaret Shiels reports on the execution in Iraq of Iranian-born Observer newspaper journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying despite an international uproar. Includes Bazoft’s televised confession; comment from Observer editor Donald Trelford; Britain’s ambassador in Iraq Harold Walker; Iraq’s ambassador in London Dr Azmi Shafiq Al-Salihi; Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd; shadow Foreign Secretary Gerald Kaufman; friend and colleague John Merriot; Daphne Parish (co-accused)'s sister Joyce(?) Chivers. For Update programme.
Contributors
Gerald Kaufman; Douglas Hurd; Donald Trelford; Harold Walker; Margaret Shiels; Azmi Shafiq Al-Salihi; Farzad Bazoft; John Merriot; Joyce(?) Chivers
Keywords
Newspapers; UK; Espionage; Executions; Journalists; Sentencing; Iraq; Saddam Hussein; Daphne Parish; The Observer; Update (radio programme); Farzad Bazoft; Hangings

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