Washington Post presses for answers on Khashoggi in public relations push

The Washington Post has released a new ad campaign to press for answers on the disappearance of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who went missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Turkey.

The newspaper released full-page advertisement in Friday’s print addition.

{mosads}“On Tuesday, October 2 at 1:14 p.m. Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul,” the ad reads. “He has not been seen since.”

“Demand answers,” it says in block letters.

In today’s print edition, a full-page ad demanding answers on the disappearance and apparent murder of contributing Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

You can read his columns for The Post here: https://t.co/8sSvDWvAJW pic.twitter.com/Fm7jVnPpFw

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 12, 2018

The same design featuring a set of metal doors with the national emblem of Saudi Arabia closing is highlighted on the Post’s website homepage.

The ad campaign follows the newspaper’s decision to print a blank column last week in solidarity for where Khashoggi’s latest column should have been published.

Khashoggi, who has been an outspoken critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his policies, was attempting to get documents for a marriage license at the consulate.

He was never seen leaving the building and no one has been in contact with him since. 

The journalist is suspected of being dead and Turkish security officials have reportedly concluded that Saudi leadership ordered his murder and possible dismemberment inside the building.

Saudi Arabia’s government has said that it has no knowledge of Khashoggi’s whereabouts and that it is just as interested in where he is.

President Trump vowed “severe punishment” if it is shown that Khashoggi’s disappearance or murder was ordered by the government.