Jamal Khashoggi's murder serves as a cautionary tale, writes samahhadid for CNNopinion: 'No matter how brutal the crime, no matter how incriminating the evidence, justice proves elusive for those who speak truth to power.'
Samah Hadid is a human rights advocate based in Beirut who has campaigned for justice and accountability for Jamal Khashoggi. She is the former Middle East director of campaigns for Amnesty International. The opinions viewed in this commentary are hers.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi should be hailed a hero for paying the ultimate price for his belief in free speech. Instead, his murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year serves as a cautionary tale: no matter how brutal the crime, no matter how well-known the victim might be, no matter how incriminating the evidence, justice proves elusive for those who speak truth to power.
Last year was one of the most dangerous for the media. The number of reporters who were murdered and disappeared in 2018 went up on the previous year, and"journalists have never before been subjected to as much violence and abusive treatment as in 2018," according to Reporters Without Borders . This worrying trend, which has continued into this year, doesn't tell the full story.
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