There are others speaking out about fear for their lives. Some in the UK. The USA will never consent to human rights abuses and freedom of speech is a foundation to Western democracy. There is no sense in the Crowned Prince stating otherwise, he has already carried out one atrocity against a Western Journalist.
January 24, 2020
Jamal Khashoggi and Hatice Cengiz during the summer of 2018. (click here)
A Saudi dissident living in the US (click here) has claimed that the FBI saved him from suffering a similar fate to that of Jamal Khashoggi. Twenty-seven-year-old Abdulrahman Almutairi, a former student at the University of San Diego, spoke of his ordeal with the Daily Beast.
Almutairi, a YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of followers, attracted the attention of the Saudis after he criticised Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman over the October 2018 murder and dismemberment of Khashoggi. “The Saudi government realized I was a threat,” Almutairi told The Daily Beast.
According to Almutairi an unidentified Saudi man accompanied his father on a flight to collect him against his will and bring him back to Saudi Arabia. The FBI foiled the plot and it was only due to their timely intervention that Almutairi was rescued....
...Critics are not the only ones to be targeted by the kingdom. As the alleged hacking of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shows, anyone deemed a threat to the kingdom’s interest are at risk. Similarly Saudi dissidents living in the UK revealed details of the risk they face on a daily basis. Spyware developed in Israel is used to track them down.
Khasoggi's words in 2018.