𝓀Netflix took down an episode of Hasan Minhaj-hosted "Patriot Act" in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The episode featured a segment criticising the country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's alleged involvement in the journalist Jamal Khashoggi murder case.
൩The episode will not air in Saudi Arabia but is available elsewhere.
🥂In the episode, Minhaj blames Mohammed bin Salman for Khashoggi's murder, calling it the "biggest tragedy of the MBS era", according to The Hollywood Reporter.
🐼Minhaj also spoke about how American companies preferred to keep their business ties intact with Saudi Arabia.
♋Netflix, on its part, said they received a legal request from the Saudi government to remove the episode from its platform, though the episode remains available on YouTube.
🐎"We strongly support artistic freedom and removed this episode only in Saudi Arabia after we had received a valid legal request -- and to comply with local law," Netflix US said in a statement.
𒈔Minhaj's show started screening in October and is already very popular.
🌜Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, disappeared after he entered the Saudi consulate in Turkey on October 2, 2018, to collect a document for his upcoming marriage to a Turkish woman.
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚThe Saudi government initially said he left the consulate through the back door.
📖Following a global outrage, Riyadh later acknowledged that Khashoggi was killed in a fistfight inside the consulate after an interrogation went wrong.
🍸Recently, the Turkish media reports suggested that people who came out of the consulate were carrying a bag which contained Khashoggi's body parts.
PTI
