A new video featuring well-known journalists from across the globe spotlights the last column written by Jamal Khashoggi and calls “for truth and accountability” for their murdered Saudi Arabian peer.
Released Monday by Amnesty International, the three-minute video leads off with words from Khashoggi’s editor at the Washington Post, Karen Attiah. She says of his last column, which she received a day after Khashoggi was reported missing, “We felt that releaing it after his death will remind the world of his commitment and passion for freedom in the Arab world and the greater world as well.”
Among the journalists reading portions of that last column, both in English and Arabic, are Mehdi Hasan of Al-Jazeera English, Kareem Shaheen of the Guardian, Naomi Klein of The Intercept, and Hamid Mir of Pakistan’s Geo News.
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“The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011,” Hasan says, reading from Khashoggi’s last column, “What the Arab World Needs Most Is Free Expression.”
“Journalists, academics, and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries. They expected to be emancipated from the hegemony of their governments and the consistent interventions and censorship of information. These expectations were quickly shattered,” Hasan says.
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