Fri 10 May 2019:
An Arab human-rights activist who worked with slain editorialist Jamal Khashoggi said Wednesday he was briefly placed under police protection in Norway owing to threats on his life. Iyad el-Baghdadi, a Palestinian blogger and author who sought asylum in Norway in September 2015, said he was exfiltrated from his home by agents from the PST interior security service for a few hours on April 25 following a tip-off. “They told me that they had received a tip from a partner agency indicating that I’m a target,” Baghdadi told AFP. The Norwegian service declined to comment, but the British newspaper The Guardian, which broke the story, said it was the CIA that alerted Norwegian colleagues. “It’s not clear at this point what the threat is, it’s vague and this is a problem. I believe that they did not want to take chances,” remarked Baghdadi, 41.
