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Monday, October 15, 2018

Britain must hold the Saudis to account for Jamal Khashoggi | Emily Thornberry

Rather than annoy a trading partner, the Tories turn a blind eye to the country’s excesses

Imagine how this government would have reacted if last weekend either Russia or Iran had abducted – and in all likelihood murdered – one of their dissident journalists within the sovereign territory of another country.

In fact, we do not need to imagine it. We need only look back five months to the faked assassination of the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on the streets of Kiev. It took the then foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, less than 24 hours to issue an official statement not only saying how appalled he was, but leaving no doubt that the Russian state was responsible and saying it must be held to account.

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