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Why Jamal Khashoggi's murder took place in a consulate

  • Written by Victoria Reyes, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a 2014 press conference in Bahrain.AP/Hasan Jamali

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered by an alleged Saudi “hit squad” whose members have close ties to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

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