Exclusive: Regime, which executed 243 people last year for drug offences, accused of investing in entertainment to whitewash its human rights record
The acclaimed Australian film-maker Phillip Noyce is being paid by the Saudi regime to make a feature film portraying the repressive state’s narcotics officers as heroes.
The Watchful Eyes, based on a real Saudi ministry of interior narcotics case, is billed as a dramatic depiction of the “heroism of security men in combating drugs”.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/phillip-noyce-feature-film-saudi-regime
Author : Amanda Meade
Publish date : 2026-05-07 02:08:00
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