A Saudi journalist reacts to Khashoggi’s disappearance 

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Journalist and filmmaker Safa Al-Ahmad says her native Saudi Arabia does not tolerate critics of its policies, nor does it give journalists a free hand to report inside the kingdom. She says Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance is only the most high profile example of a clampdown by authorities that has been going on for over a year.

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