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‘Journalists Are Under Attack Like Never Before,’ Amal Clooney: WATCH

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New York, NY – September 28, 2018: Amal Clooney attends side event Press behind bars during 73rd UNGA session at United Nations Headquarters – Shutterstock

According to Time magazine, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney accused world leaders Wednesday of failing to protect journalists and responding with “a collective shrug” over the slaying of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.

Clooney, the British government’s envoy on media freedom, said at a conference on press freedom that “journalists are under attack like never before,” not just while covering wars but for exposing crime and corruption.

The Washington Post columnist was killed inside Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul last year.

“The vast majority of these murders go unpunished,” she said, adding that “world leaders responded with little more than a collective shrug” to Khashoggi’s killing by agents close to the Saudi crown prince.

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