Saudi’s handling of Khashoggi’s murder offers lesson on importance of transparency

There’s a lesson to learn from the case of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder about the importance of transparency, Emad El Din Hussein writes in a piece for Al Shorouk. He argues that the firestorm of criticism that Saudi Arabia is under — with media outlets, world leaders, and global executives turning their backs to it — could have been avoided had officials informed the public about what they knew of the dissident Saudi journalist’s murder straight off the bat. Instead, Saudi spent weeks denying any knowledge of Khashoggi’s whereabouts, which undermined its credibility when officials finally came clean, making it easy for the world to see the affair as a “coverup.”