An image of slain reporter Jamal Khashoggi is displayed as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at a Capitol Hill event marking 100 days since the journalist’s death, on Jan. 10, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)Dozen of lawmakers and Washington leaders paid tribute to slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Thursday at the Capitol, 100 days after the Washington Post columnist disappeared inside a Saudi consulate in Turkey, pledging to keep his story alive in the fight for global freedom of the press. It’s causing a lot of people to remember why our press is so important,” he said. He called on the bipartisan gathering of congressional leaders to keep pushing the cause of journalistic freedom and to hold the administration accountable. “Jamal’s killing is part of an escalating attack against press freedom that is being waged by tyrants around the world, and that’s why we can’t just let Jamal’s story fade away.

Source: Washington Post January 10, 2019 23:56 UTC