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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