"Jamal Khashoggi Was My Fiance. A Year After His Murder, I'm Still Fighting for Justice"

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By Hatice Cengiz 5:00 AM EDT

Hatice Cengiz was the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.

The morning of Oct. 2, 2018, was the last day I would wake up to a normal life like everyone else, full of hopes and desires. Who would have known that it would be the last day I saw my fiancé, Jamal Khashoggi? Who would have known that when I left the house, I would become a real-life answer to the question: “Can someone’s life change in a day?”

I wasn’t supposed to be with Jamal that day when he went to the Saudi consulate to get the necessary documents for our marriage. He knew I was busy with my Ph.D. work and had told me to carry on with my studying. But in the end, I offered to go with him. Apart from being a person I loved, Jamal was a person I profoundly respected, whose life, status, experience and values I admired. I was always happy to know where he was going and to help him out, especially when he was in Istanbul, where we spent a lot of time together. It made him happy, too.

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The murder of Jamal, a rare man of his generation, was a blow to everyone fighting for democracy in the region. It wasn’t just people who knew him who cried at his death; it was everyone crying for the fate of the people from this region. Muslims around the world performed a funeral prayer without a body. In getting rid of his body, his killers had dealt yet another blow to those who loved Jamal.

But at the same time, they sowed the seeds of a new enlightenment and a movement to fight for freedom around the world and, above all, in the Middle East. While I was traveling recently, a man came to help me with my suitcase, walking with me until passport control without looking at me. When we paused, I thanked him for his kind gesture. “May Jamal rest in peace,” he replied. “I wish I could do more for you. I am Iranian; I recognized you as we were boarding the plane. I am so sorry for what happened. I was very much affected by it all.” Then he said goodbye and left, and I stood there watching him walk away.

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https://time.com/5690601/jamal-khashoggi-anniversary/

[hlthe2b]

1. She, along with his kids and work colleagues have been exposed to daily horror as details of his

death and "disposal" are reported and confirmed.

I feel very badly for them and my anger toward Trump only increases.

But when all is said and done, I believe historians will look at Trump's horrific abuse of US intelligence officers and their work, as well as the enraged, relentless and unforgetting reporters of WAPO to be among those who take him down. And, no, I don't mean "DEEP STATE", but rather he never ceased to motivate them to defend the constitution and expose the facts.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Greenwald, Scahill, Taibbi, etc. were unavailable for comment

They're too busy writing their hot takes explaining why Hunter Biden is the real criminal mastermind of the Ukraine scandal...

[duforsure]

3. Was trump involved?

Wasn't their a lot done for the prince using USA Intel to out his opposition for him to use to round them up with? Was this done for trump after he wrote a damming article on trump, and the prince did that for him? And to prevent him and others getting exposed? Did the CIA tell trump everything about him being targeted and did nothing to stop it?