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Saudi Arabia’s sportswashing billions can’t cleanse the brutal truth
From golf and football to Formula One, the kingdom uses unprecedented investments in global sport to divert attention from its persecution of journalists, dissidents and women, write BELLA KATZ and ROGER McKENZIE

THE phrase a man walks into a consulate could be the beginning of some sort of distasteful joke. But this is no joke.
Back in October 2018, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi did in fact walk into his country’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey to obtain documents he needed for his forthcoming marriage. He never walked out.
Instead, he was murdered on what a United States intelligence report asserted was the direct order of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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