‘We Deserve Better’

Note: Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and editor who ran afoul of the government, was murdered and dismembered by a Saudi hit squad after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018. A U.S. intelligence report released last week concludes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder.

“It was painful for me several years ago when several friends were arrested. I said nothing. I didn’t want to lose my job or my freedom. I worried about my family.

“I have made a different choice now. I have left my home, my family and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot. I want you to know that Saudi Arabia has not always been as it is now. We Saudis deserve better.”

—Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018), contributing columnist, “Saudi Arabia wasn’t always this repressive. Now it’s unbearable,” The Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2017.

 

• Editorial Comment: Who speaks for Jamal?

• Commentary: Nicholas Kristof, “President Biden Lets a Saudi Murderer Walk,” NYTimes, Feb. 26, 2021.

 

 

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