Saudi Arabia confirms that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead quickly when it goes to see Turkish officials. There's sort of been a pattern over a century where Arab journalists have sought refuge either in parts of the region which were more liberal or as those became increasingly scarce in the West. Now there are signs that repressive governments are buying up what remains of independent press abroad and hauling them back home. So we're kind of seeing media outlets being hauled home the better to muzzle and control them.
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