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Turkey has concluded that Jamal #Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a 15-member Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
"#Khashoggi visited the consulate to obtain documents related to his upcoming wedding.
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"
https://twitter.com/Otpor17/status/1048688443365183488?s=19
"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. #Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate." reuters.com/article/us-sau…
"15 Saudi citizens, *including Saudi diplomats*, arrived in Istanbul on 2 separate planes & were at the consulate around same time as Khashoggi. They later left Turkey for the countries they came from.
These were the agents sent to deal with #Khashoggi"
nyti.ms/2Cv2Ys6
These were the agents sent to deal with #Khashoggi"
nyti.ms/2Cv2Ys6
Barbaric.
"Turan Kislakci, head of Turkish Arab Media Association, said Turkish officials called him & confirmed Khashoggi was killed and his body was dismembered."
A senior Arab govt official also described #Khashoggi’s body as having been dismembered."
"Turan Kislakci, head of Turkish Arab Media Association, said Turkish officials called him & confirmed Khashoggi was killed and his body was dismembered."
A senior Arab govt official also described #Khashoggi’s body as having been dismembered."
https://twitter.com/Otpor17/status/1048761569373573120?s=19
"In a draft unpublished column, #Khashoggi had planned to argue for the importance to the Arab world of developing a free press.
Recounting a journalist jailed in Saudi Arabia and the censorship of a newspaper in Egypt, he wrote, “Everyone is fearful.” google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
Recounting a journalist jailed in Saudi Arabia and the censorship of a newspaper in Egypt, he wrote, “Everyone is fearful.” google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
Not only have Trump's vicious, authoritarian attacks on the free press given other regimes carte blanche to follow suit, he is personally indebted to the Saudi royals, who twice saved him from bankruptcy and are keeping his failing NY hotel afloat.
The human cost of kleptocracy.
The human cost of kleptocracy.
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