Saudi Arabian people

At least 95 journalists were killed last year during the course of their work, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), quoted by BGNES.

The highest number of media deaths recorded was 155 in 2006.

The U.S. on April 8 designated 16 Saudi officials for their roles in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

More than a half-dozen rights and free press groups on April 5 demanded the U.S., U.K. and France to publicly release assessments of Saudi Arabia's trial of those accused of murdering columnist Jamal Khashoggi.       

Six months after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. President Donald Trump has still done nothing to hold those responsible accountable, The Washington Post said on April 1.

A UN's human rights expert demanded on March 28 that Saudi Arabia carry out a public trial proceeding for the killing case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

More than a year before the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved a secret campaign to silence dissenters, The New York Times reported on March 17.

Turkish Presidency Communications Director Fahrettin Altun has criticized the head of the Saudi human rights committee for his resistance to an international probe into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Senate must push for accountability after U.S. President Donald Trump defied Congress and did not report whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's death, according to The Washington Post.       

A proposal to use 15 million euros in Saudi Arabian government funds for Milan's La Scala opera house came under fire on March 5 because of anger over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

European countries will urge Saudi Arabia this week to release detained activists and cooperate with a U.N.-led probe into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the first rebuke of the kingdom at the Human Rights Council, diplomats and campaigners said.