Middle East

Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists honoured as Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Khashoggi was murdered at the hands of a Saudi hit squad sent to kill him (Supplied)

Time Magazine on Tuesday named Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists killed and imprisoned in 2018 as its "Person of the Year".

Described as the "guardians of the truth", Khashoggi was recognised alongside Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar after investigating a massacre against Rohingya Muslims; Maria Ressa, a Filipino journalist; and the journalists killed in a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette local newspaper in Maryland.

Writing about Khashoggi, Time Magazine said: "He told the world the truth about its brutality towards those who would speak out. And he was murdered for it.

Thank you @TIME for making “Guardians of the Truth” Person of the Year— including our @washingtonpost colleague and friend Jamal #Khashoggi.

“Some depart to remain.” –@JKhashoggi https://t.co/O8W40EgHQ7 pic.twitter.com/Tgn4YL2bYM

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) December 11, 2018

"His death laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-US alliance and – in the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and links – the centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?"

Khashoggi, a Middle East Eye contributor and Washington Post columnist, was killed more than two months ago by a Saudi hit squad inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in an operation that is widely suspected to have been ordered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Saudi Arabia has denied that the crown prince was involved and has arrested 21 people in connection with the killing.

But the case has cast scrutiny on the close relationship with US President Donald Trump's administration and the Saudi crown prince, with some US senators briefed last week by CIA chief Gina Haspel declaring that they were certain that MBS had ordered the killing.

Original Article

[contf]
[contfnew]

middle east eye

[contfnewc]
[contfnewc]

Related Articles

Middle East

Israel PM ‘flew to Saudi Arabia for secret talks with crown prince’

bbc– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly flew to Saudi Arabia on...

Middle East

Lebanon’s unfinished revolution: One year after protests, change has yet to come

Issued on: 21/10/2020 – 12:18Modified: 21/10/2020 – 14:28 It's been one year...

Middle East

Israel lauds UAE delegation visit as ‘making history’, Palestinians deem it ‘shameful’

Issued on: 20/10/2020 – 14:27 In an historic first visit by a...

Middle East

Iran rules out weapons ‘buying spree’ as UN embargo is set to expire

Issued on: 18/10/2020 – 07:42 Iran said it was self-reliant in its...