Mediagazer: BBC Panorama Cancels Mazher Mahmood ‘Fake Sheikh’ Documentary With Minutes Until Broadcast (Jessica Elgot/Huffington Post UK)

5:50 PM ET, November 10, 2014

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Jessica Elgot / Huffington Post UK:

BBC Panorama Cancels Mazher Mahmood ‘Fake Sheikh’ Documentary With Minutes Until Broadcast — The BBC has cancelled its plans to air a controversial expose of “fake sheikh” Mazher Mahmood on Monday's Panorama, because of new legal information, just minutes before it was due to broadcast.

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