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01 August 2019, Yemen, Aden: People inspect the damage after a missile attack targeting a camp during a military parade. At least 60 people were killed on Thursday in two attacks targeting a camp and a police station in the government-controlled port city of Aden. The missile attack on the camp in the western section of Aden was claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. Photo: Wail Shaif/dpa (Photo by Wail Shaif/picture alliance via Getty Images)

U.S.: Human Rights Organizations Should Reassess Approaches to International Law During Armed Conflict

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman attends a working breafast with US President Donald Trump (not pictured) during the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Rights Groups File Complaint Asking France to Investigate Saudi Crown Prince over Jamal Khashoggi Killing

U.S.: Lobbyists Finch, Tamasi, Rabinowitz, and Dickinson Contributing to Rights Abuses by Blacklisted NSO Group

UAE: Immediately Release Asim Ghafoor, Former Lawyer for Jamal Khashoggi and DAWN Board Member

US President Joe Biden waves as he disembarks from Air Force One upon his arrival at the Franz Josef Strauss Airport in Munich, southern Germany on June 25, 2022, on the eve of the G7 summit. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Six Measures President Biden Should Take During Trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia

A picture taken during a guided tour organised by Egypt's State Information Service on February 11, 2020,shows a partial view of the Tora prison on the southern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Egypt: Sisi Government Releases 60 Political Prisoners, Tens of Thousands Remain Imprisoned

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi reviews an honour guard of troops prior to a meeting with with French Defence Minister Florence Parly at The Defence Ministry in Paris on October 23, 2017. - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is starting a three-day visit to France, during which human rights, along with economic and military cooperation are expected to be discussed. (Photo by Thibault Camus / POOL / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT CAMUS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Egypt: Release Anas El-Beltagy, Arbitrarily Detained at 19, Remains Unjustly Imprisoned More than Eight Years Later

An embassy staffer peers through a glass door at an entrance of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2011. US will contact governments worldwide to brief them on an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder said. The Justice Department charged two men with conspiring with factions of the Iranian government to carry out a deadly plot to blow up Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir on American soil. The criminal complaint named Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old naturalized US citizen holding both Iranian and US passports, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of Iran's Quds Force, in the plot. AFP Photo/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)

"Jamal Khashoggi" Way Street Sign Memorializing Murder of Saudi Journalist Unveiled in Front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C.

NABLUS, WEST BANK - MAY 11: Press members holding photos of female reporter of Al-Jazeera television channel Shireen Abu Akleh, died as a result of fire opened by Israeli soldiers, are seen in front of the hospital as Akleh's dead body is brought to Al- Najah Hospital for autopsy in Nablus, West Bank on May 11, 2022. (Photo by Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

U.S.: Investigate Israeli Killing of Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

"How can we progress as a nation when those offering constructive feedback and (often humorous) dissent are banished?"

Jamal Khashoggi