Jamal Khashoggi (Facebook)
A rally is being held in front of the B.C. Legislature Saturday following the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Turkey.
Thelma Fayle, a writer and member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, has organized the event which looks to pay respects to the fellow writer.
Writers of all types from fiction, nonfiction, casual to professionals are invited. Some guest speakers will also deliver speeches at the event.
The rally runs from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Fayle hopes the event will honor Khashoggi’s life work and “show our sadness at the cruel death suffered by a writer who was willing to say the hard things that needed to be said to help us all move forward”
Khashoggi was a prominent Saudi journalist and was living in a self-imposed exile in Turkey. The Washington Post columnist disappeared after entering a Saudi consulate earlier this month when retrieving papers he needed to marry his fiancee.
Saudi officials admit that he had been killed, first saying it was the result of a botched interrogation. Since the many in the international community have condemned the actions of the Saudi government.
Few other details have been released by Saudi Arabia and the exact details of the reason and who was involved in the murder are still unclear.
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