Saudi Arabia outed two journalists. Now they're fleeing for their lives.

Two journalists were outed by the Saudi government in retaliation for helping foreign journalists talk to dissidents.

The men, 35 and 46, who have requested anonymity, are being held in separate facilities in Australia, one in a detention center and the other is in a hospital for treatment for tuberculosis. The Australian government has not said why they are being held in a center, and Reporters without Borders said that their treatment in Australia was “shameful.”

What they were escaping in Saudi Arabia was even more harrowing. Homosexuality is illegal in the country and can be punished with death.

The older journalist told Reuters that he has worked for CNN, the BBC, and the Saudi media ministry. When he was working for the ministry in May 2018, he helped two Canadian journalists with the CBC get visas and arrange interviews.

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