Watch THE DICTATOR HUNTER on Global Voices on PBS WORLD

Posted on April 24, 2009
Are you a world traveler? Want to learn more about stories that affect our global community? Beginning on Sunday, April 26 at 10:00 PM (check local listings), tune in and watch the second season of Global Voices, the international documentary series produced by ITVS International for the PBS WORLD digital channel. Kicking off this season is Dutch filmmaker Klaartje Quirijn’s THE DICTATOR HUNTER, which looks at Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody who pursues former dictators worldwide in order to bring them to justice including Hissène Habré, one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century. Brody and former political prisoner Souleymane Guangueng work the system of international diplomacy like a chess game to bring Habré to trial for authorizing the torture and murder of thousands. Watch a preview below:

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