Hatice Cengiz has not spoken much in public about Khashoggi’s murder, at the Saudi consulate in Instanbul, but she is invested in defending the democratic principles he stood for.
Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton, has met M.B.S., communicated with him via WhatsApp, and voiced support for the crown prince’s agenda.
Sullivan discusses the biggest foreign-policy dangers for Democrats, the real reasons that the Obama Administration aided the Saudi war in Yemen, and Trump’s embrace of foreign strongmen.
On Thursday, journalists, lawmakers, human-rights advocates, and friends will gather to remember Jamal Khashoggi, and to stand up for those who have the courage to expose wrongdoing by the powerful.
Citing a vague but sweeping cybercrime law, Saudi Arabia pressured Netflix into pulling an episode of Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” in which the comedian criticizes the Saudi royal family over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
Both Democrats and Republicans have been outraged by President Trump’s willingness to give the Saudi crown prince a pass in regard to the journalist’s killing.