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Officials want road going past embassy in Foggy Bottom to serve as daily reminder to Saudi officials about journalists murder
Local officials in a Washington neighborhood have voted to rename a street outside Saudi Arabias embassy in honour of the slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
If approved by the city council, the advisory commissions measure means a stretch of road going past the expansive embassy building in the upscale Foggy Bottom district would be ceremonially renamed Jamal Khashoggi Way.
Khashoggi, a US resident, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.
After initially denying the murder, Saudi Arabia has acknowledged Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate but blamed his death on a rogue operation.
Top officials from the administration of President Donald Trump have said they have seen no direct evidence linking the murder to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but the CIA reportedly has found a connection.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/01/jamal-khashoggi-way-washington-city-may-rename-saudi-embassy-street
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According to CNN, the idea to change the streets name started about a month ago following an online petition.
We suggest renaming the street address of the Saudi embassy into Jamal Khashoggi Way to be a daily reminder to Saudi officials that such killings are totally unacceptable and as an expression of Washingtons unstinting support for freedom of the press, the petition states.
A similar action was taken outside the Russian embassy, where a street was this year renamed in honour of prominent Vladimir Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in Moscow in 2015.
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(11,884 posts)Naming it after him that protect journalists by having stricter mandatory penalties from actions against them from others from foreign countries, but especially from politicians , or CEO's , the wealthy using their influence and power to hurt them in any way. Also to protect them from personal attacks used to undermine their job, and right to free speech.