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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, October 11th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Last week, the 59-year-old journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after visiting Saudi Arabia's

consulate in Istanbul.

A few days later, the Turkish government accused the

Saudis of murdering him. A Saudi citizen and a columnist for the Washington Post who has

lived in exile in Virginia since last summer, Khashoggi had been increasingly critical of the

Saudi government. Last March, in a debate on Al Jazeera TV, he was asked why he had

compared Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Vladimir Putin. I still see him as a reformer, but he is

gathering all power within his hand. And it would be much bitter for him to allow a breathing space

for critic, for Saudi intellectuals,

Saudi writers, Saudi media to debate the most important, needed transformation going in the country.

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