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Jamal Khashoggi

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Hundreds of abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria released

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Top of The World: A group of 279 girls who were abducted from a boarding school in the increasingly lawless northwestern Nigeria have been released. And, Reporters Without Borders has filed a criminal complaint in a German court against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman related to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Also, the Biden administration announced sanctions against senior Russian government officials over the poisoning and imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

A police officer is shown looking over her right shoulder and wearing a hat with a portrait of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the wall behind her.

Report on murdered Saudi journalist to be released

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UK sanctions on Russians, Saudis are a ‘milestone’ for human rights, advocate says

Human rights
Agnès Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hold a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Dec. 3, 2019.

Khashoggi sons’ pardon of his killers is ‘final act of the parody of justice,’ UN expert says

Ambulances and fire brigade vehicles gather at the site of a passenger plane crash in a residential area near an airport in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 22, 2020.

Plane crashes in Karachi with at least 99 aboard; Khashoggi’s children ‘pardon’ father’s killers; Trump to withdraw from arms control treaty

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Several white candles are burning in front of a sign that reads, "Justice for Jamal Khashoggi."

Saudi sentences five to death, three to jail over Khashoggi murder

Justice

Saudi Arabia Monday sentenced five people to death and three more to jail terms totaling 24 years over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October last year.

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Saudi ‘Davos’ turnout underscores costs of Khashoggi murder

Business, Economics and Jobs

Last year, many of the who’s who in politics and business boycotted Saudi Arabia’s “Davos in the Desert” event in the wake of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. This year? Many return but there are still some notable no-shows.

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Khashoggi colleague: ‘They took me away and they told me that I’m the target of a Saudi threat’

İyad el-Baghdadi rose to prominence tweeting and writing during the Arab Spring uprising. He fled to Norway in 2014, but after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, he found himself also targeted.

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After Khashoggi, exiled journalists say ‘you can’t feel safe, anywhere you go’

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and expert on the region’s politics who was murdered on Oct. 2, 2018, was an occasional guest on “Egyptian Street.”

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International community has ‘failed’ in the aftermath of Khashoggi’s death

Justice

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and death brought unwanted attention to the Saudi regime. It has also challenged world leadership to take a stand for human rights, press freedoms and rule of law — a responsibility that has been largely shirked on this grim anniversary.