'I'll be more useful in exile than prison' - Saudi rights lawyer

Faced with a hard choice: a long prison sentence in their country, or self-imposed exile, two Saudi lawyers who represented political dissidents had to make a difficult decision. They chose exile.

Despite promises of more general reforms, Taha al Haji and Abdulaziz Al Hussan say the crackdown on dissidents in Saudi has intensified lately.

Saudi Journalist Safa AlAhmad reports.

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