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Dear John,

Five years ago today, Jamal Khashoggi, a distinguished Saudi activist and journalist living in the United States, was brutally murdered by a hit team carrying out the orders of the Saudi government.

Despite an unequivocal assessment by US intelligence agencies that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the Khashoggi operation, he has faced no meaningful accountability. Worryingly, the United States and other leading democracies are actually pursuing closer diplomatic and cultural relations with Saudi Arabia, even as its crackdown on dissent grows worse.

For democratic governments and organizations to accept the Saudi regime into the fold without meaningful accountability for its crimes would be a serious mistake. A more assertive human rights policy with regard to Saudi Arabia will not only restore democracies’ fidelity to their own values, it will also make them more secure and prosperous in the long run.



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