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Det er nå 15 år siden Martine Vik Magnussen ble voldtatt og drept i London. Hovedmistenkt Farouk Abdulhak, sønnen til en av de rikeste forretningsmennene i Midt-Østen, flyktet til Jemen.

Martines far, Odd Petter har kjempet hver dag siden for å få ham utlevert til Engelske myndigheter. Alle forsøk har så langt feilet.

Nå tar prisvinnende BBC-journalist Nawal Al-Maghafi opp jakten på Farouk for å få svar fra ham om hva som faktisk skjedde den skjebnesvangre natten i 2008.

Martine Siste Kapittel - produsert av NeedToKnow for BBC og TV 2

 

In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen was killed after a night out in Mayfair. Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case, Farouk Abdulhak, the son of one of Yemen’s richest and most powerful men, fled the UK to Yemen.

Nawal Al-Maghafi seeks answers to what happened to Martine and uncovers how money, political power and Yemeni law protected Farouk once he had absconded to Yemen, which has no extradition treaty with the UK.


Kinapodden

What do you really know about China, and what do you know about what is happening in China now?

What China is doing is relevant to Norway, but where is the Norwegian debate about China? Where is the discussion? Our goal is to stimulate discussion here at home.

The guests in Kinapodden can be researchers, politicians or journalists, at home and abroad, who have specialized in the topics or areas we choose to go into.

The consequence of China "not being on the map" is weak opinion formation, little debate and thus a lack of knowledge about matters that greatly concern, or will concern, Norwegian social life and politics. We experience a silence about Chinese relations. A slightly "guilt-driven" silence perhaps, which also helps to reduce the number of statements.  

When expressions become fewer, in a field where they should have become more, then the space for expression is restricted, and this can produce a form of "servility". In Norway, we mostly leave Chinese relations alone, with the risk that "what happens in China, stays in China".  


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Only A Father

In the autumn of 2013, the two daughters of Sadiq Abdallah Juma ran away from their home in Norway to Syria to join IS. The documentary follows the father's desperate attempt to get his daughters back to Norway. Father’s love drives him into Syria and captivity by IS. When in prison Sadiq is accused by IS of being a spy for Norwegian Secret Service. The penalty for that is beheading. After struggling for almost four years, he has not yet given up the hope of gathering his family back in Norway. But can he accept the radical choices of his daughters?​


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Dishonored

In June 2002, a dispute involving a question of honor between the Mai and Mastois clans in rural Pakistan was judged by a local tribal council. When Mukhtar Mai pleaded on her family’s behalf, the local imam consented to her punishment as honor-revenge, and she was brutally gang-raped by four men from the Mastois clan. Dishonored documents the remarkable story of Mukhtar Mai, whose demand for justice received media coverage worldwide.


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Forbidden Future

A shocking and revealing documentary on the subcultures in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Young Iranian artists expressing themselves through music, paintings, and sport -thereby risking anything from public floggings to death. If discovered, the lucky ones affluent enough have the one option of buying their way back to freedom.


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AIRBORNE MEDICS

At the other end of the brutal frontline of the war in Afghanistan, another battle is being fought, a fight to save lives. In this documentary series, we get a unique insight into the work done by the Norwegian Air Defense Force's contribution to the Norwegian Aeromedical Detachment (NAD) in Meymaneh in northern Afghanistan.


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HOME OF THE BRAVE - LAND OF THE FREE


This one-of-a-kind documentary takes a unique look at the manner in which the US Special Forces operates in Afghanistan.  Never before has anyone followed the actions of the US Special Forces so closely from such a perspective.