Nigeria: Soyinka Honours Khashoggi At Worldwide Reading for Press Freedom

14 December 2018

Yinka Olatunbosun reports on the special literary session marking the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights at Freedom Park, Lagos, where the late Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was honoured by Wole Soyinka

"I can't breathe." Those were the last recorded words of the Saudi dissident journalist and author, Jamal Khashoggi who was last seen entering into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2018. It was widely reported in international media that Khashoggi had been killed and his body dismembered. With the shocking revelations trailing his death, the Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka deemed it fit to hold a special reading session at the Freedom Park, Lagos on Monday November 10 with civil rights societies, writers and journalists on the occasion of the Worldwide Reading for Freedom of the Press.

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