A year after Jamal Khashoggi was killed, journalists are at greater risk worldwide
by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
Oct 05, 2019
3 minutes
BEIRUT - Far from being a wake-up call, the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi just over a year ago appears to have instilled a negative lesson - that stifling dissent, even in a lurid fashion, can have limited consequences.
Since Khashoggi was choked and dismembered by Saudi agents in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, murders, imprisonment, hostage-taking and enforced disappearances of journalists have increased worldwide, according to Reporters Without Borders. A total of 80 journalists were killed in
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