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.