Abdullah Al-Emadi-Doha
His voice, his opinion and his ideas were everywhere. Journalist Gamal Khashoggi emerged very much. He felt that the country was on the road to a comprehensive and profound reform, including the freedom of expression, which began to rise gradually.
The emergence of this rise began to start shortly after entering the atmosphere of relapse and descent quickly after the official issuance began to narrow, and it seemed that opinion and opinion itself is the new approach to the authority and decision, or that the expression began the era of "I only show you what I see" led by the Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman.
Here Gamal began to control his enthusiasm and impulse, and it seemed to him that caution and wisdom in expression was first and best to follow until he became more familiar with the new approach of the decision-maker who was surprised at home and abroad.
The era of retreating quickly and the guardian who no longer can not see the opinion or criticism contrary to what he sees, the atmosphere changed to the atmosphere of gradually narrowing until the constraints turned into arrests and prolonged different faces between the political and advocacy and intellectual and other, and Jamal was among the long hands of power to him, But warned him and asked him to reduce his voice, and then after a short time silenced his voice.
A Saudi official source said in a statement broadcast by the Saudi Press Agency that Mr. Khashoggi did not represent the Kingdom in all his interviews and press statements, referring to the Saudi government's acquittal of Jamal during his participation in a symposium in Washington, criticizing the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency in the elections And that Saudi Arabia is concerned about its presence in the White House because of its anti-Muslim policies and attitudes.
Stop the media
This ban was also applied to the Arabic stations, the event and the Saudi news. Al Jazeera and other Gulf stations were also notified of the decision, It lasted about nine months.
| Khashoggi felt that Saudi Arabia is no longer safe for him and others like him left (Al Jazeera Net) |
He felt that the situation was no longer safe in the Kingdom for someone like him, and the exit or migration, even temporarily, is now a welcome thing, but a duty imposed by the circumstances surrounding it, especially that the harbingers of the famous arrests began to appear last summer, It was not long before he emerged from Washington, returning to Twitter in Twitter and writing in the London daily Al Hayat.
He explained the reasons for his departure and emigration to Washington as an optional exile, but it lasted for a long time with Al-Hayat newspaper. One month after the media's return to the media, the newspaper's editor came to inform him of the decision, at the request of the publisher Prince Khalid bin Sultan. The publisher saw it for the benefit of the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned group in the Kingdom, but he understood the matter and thanked the newspaper and publisher and went out, and once closed the door of life to open another door to complete the journey of writing in one of the most famous newspapers in the world, where the environment that deserves and loves, Washington Post.
Gamal continued to critique some of what he was not pleased with the situation in the Kingdom, and some decisions overwhelmed by the impulsiveness and lack of vision, and became a global star appearing in the satellite Arab and foreign, and active online Twitter platform, and participate in seminars and conferences here and there until this global activity appeared heavy He did not like the approach of "I only show you what I see", and it seems that the decision to mute his voice has been dealt with in a hurry, and take what is necessary for this, without thinking about the consequences and results.
The last scene
Khashoggi begins with Twitter as usual, writing on the first day of October. "Before his arrest in two days, Essam was part of a delegation from a Washington performance center, helping him with his experience and touring with them on US institutions to benefit from their experience." Isam al-Zamil deserves no such treatment, .. ".
| Khashoggi says his speech but walked to unknown fate so far (Reuters) |
He is talking about the Saudi economic man Essam al-Zamil, who received many awards from the state in recognition of his efforts in the field of economy. Zamil was on an official mission in the United States, even if he returned to his country. He was arrested. Muslims, and contact Qatar!
Khashoggi is defending a colleague and citizen who is involved in reforming the country. He writes surprisingly that Zamil deserves better treatment than he did on his return from a mission that was for the future of the kingdom.
But the strangeness and excitement that it did not take hours to tweet defense of Essam until the scene began entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul the next day to face treatment - perhaps if someone asked him then to choose between the treatment received by the consulate or the treatment received by Zamil when he returned to the country - was certain He will choose the latter, though they are no less in bad and insult.
So Gamal, loved his country in every time and place, and was keen - as he was repeating - not to break the cordiality with the homeland, so they are the Saudis, according to his opinion.
It is his love for his homeland, his family, his friends and his colleagues that prompted him hours ago to demand a better treatment for his colleague Issam. It is not only that he deserves it. If fate places him in a circumstance, we do not know how his wounds were, but there is no doubt that he was so cruel Gamal, who put his logo on his Twitter page, does not deserve "Say your word and walk".
He said it and walked, but where to? This is what the whole world awaits and awaits, and we know that for those who wait.