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    KINGDOM OF SILENCE

    Apr 22, 2021 1 minute
    JACOB SULLUM

    amal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist formerly favored by the royal family, left his native country in 2017 and moved to the United States. He began writing a column that criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a.k.a. MBS, for squelching even the mildest dissent, arbitrarily arresting perceived enemies, and prosecuting a genocidal war in Yemen. A year after Khashoggi launched his column, Saudi intelligence agents lured him to the country’s consulate in Istanbul under false pretenses, killed him, and dismembered his body.

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