Journalists Who Lost Their Lives In 2018

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi captured international headlines — capping a horrifying year that saw over 50 journalists killed.

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00:00But as we speak today, there are Saudi intellectuals and journalists jailed.

00:04Now nobody will dare to speak and criticize.

00:07What he is doing, I called for and I got fired for when I was an editor of a newspaper, allowing

00:35women to drive or for women to be empowered or to limit the power of the religious establishment.

00:44It is an important transformation that requires all of us to contribute to it, to discuss

00:50it and no one should be jailed for that.

01:20I am a journalist, I never do anything wrong.

01:50They are not the enemy of the people, they are the people, part of the people.

01:59From the very top, there is a full scale war on the press and a war on the first amendment

02:06if you like.

02:07And so I think it has never been more important and in some ways never more difficult.

02:20For as long as there are drug lords, this campaign will go on until the last day of

02:38my term and until all of them are killed.

02:51How do I feel about being arrested?

02:56Well number one, I am going to hold my government accountable for publicly calling me a criminal.

03:03I am not a criminal.

03:04I have been a journalist my entire life.

03:07I will continue to hold the government accountable.

03:09The point is for the government to actually make you feel its power and that it can do

03:14what it wants to do.