INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OUTRAGED OVER #KHASHOGGI MURDER
The online community was left in utter shock and sheer outrage following the murder of prominent Saudi Arabian journalist and author Jamal Khashoggi on October 20. A pronounced critic of the Crown Prince’s policies ever since his self-imposed US exile last year, the Wahington Post columnist and former Saudi government adviser was reported dead just a few hours after walking into his native country’s consulate in Istanbul to obtain an official document certifying his divorce from his ex-wife without ever getting out. While Turkish authorities believed the murder to have been pre-planned/ perpetrated by a team of Saudi agents inside the building [citing audio recordings as evidence], Saudi officials initially denied the claims, only to admit that the journalist’s death was the result of a “rogue operation” later on, vowing to punish those responsible. On 31 October, Turkey released its first official statement on Khashoggi’s murder, stating that he was immediately strangled, and his body dismembered. The Washington Post’s Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah led the online voices prompting justice for her colleague, in a series of tweets expressing her indignation at the brutal act and vowing to keep fighting for truth no matter what. “I have not, and will never move on until we get the truth and #Justiceforjamal and justice for those under the Saudi regime who have been forcibly silenced. This fight is a marathon, not a sprint,” she tweeted on November 4.