Amal Clooney Criticizes World Leaders for 'Collective Shrug' Over Killing of Journalist Jamal...

[demmiblue]

(LONDON) — Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney accused world leaders Wednesday of failing to protect journalists and responding with “a collective shrug” over the slaying of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.

Clooney, the British government’s envoy on media freedom, said at a conference on press freedom that “journalists are under attack like never before,” not just while covering wars but for exposing crime and corruption.

“The vast majority of these murders go unpunished,” she said, adding that “world leaders responded with little more than a collective shrug” to Khashoggi’s killing by agents close to the Saudi crown prince.

The Washington Post columnist was killed inside Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul last year.

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[hlthe2b]

1. She is a treasure... George is lucky (though I have tremendous admiration for him too)

[demmiblue]

2. +1

I do indeed admire Amal Clooney and her husband.

[customerserviceguy]

3. What are world leaders supposed to do?

Form a military coalition and go to war with Saudi Arabia? Iran would love that.

All you can do is a little hand-wringing, and go back to normal after a period of that. I would imagine that any boycotting of Saudi Arabia's oil would have already been in place before the killing.

[demmiblue]

4. ...

[customerserviceguy]

5. So, what do you

expect world leaders to do about it? What does Amal Clooney want done that is not being done? A bigger show of hand-wringing?

[demmiblue]

6. ...

[customerserviceguy]

7. Again

with the non-response. You do know that this is a discussion board, right?

[demmiblue]

8. No, I didn't know that. n/t