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On the second anniversary of the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi inside his country’s consulate in Istanbul, the documentary “Kingdom of Silence” is shown on television, a work that documents the life of the late journalist.

According to the newspaper “The New York TimesThe film does not aim to commemorate Khashoggi, who is the writer for the “Washington Post”, but rather depicts his career in all its details and contradictions.

The film hosted a number of close friends of Khashoggi and his colleagues, who shed light on his professional and personal life as well, as human rights activist Muhammad Sultan says that Jamal “chose the information that he shares with everyone.”

He added, “He did not share his life with everyone. I do not think there is a single documentary film that can show the complete personality of a man.”

The film “Kingdom of Silence” depicts Khashoggi’s strange character, through his work at times with the Saudi government, and then criticizing it after leaving it to Washington, against the backdrop of a decision banning him from writing.

Khashoggi, born in Medina in 1958, studied journalism at Indiana State University, where he worked as a reporter for a number of local Arabic and English newspapers, during which he covered the war in Afghanistan, before later assuming leadership positions in Saudi media, while he also worked as a media advisor to the Prince Turki Al-Faisal, the former Saudi ambassador to Washington.

Nawaf Obaid, a colleague of Khashoggi’s while they were working with the Saudi government, objects to describing Khashoggi as a “dissident,” and this is also the title of a new documentary about the Khashoggi assassination, directed by Brian Vogel.

Jamal left Saudi Arabia in the wake of the “boycott” of Saudi Arabia and three other countries, namely the Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, to the State of Qatar in mid-2017, where he began writing opinions critical of his country’s policies.

But Khashoggi, who returned to Turkey to extract a special document from his country’s embassy in Istanbul, was cut short on October 2, 2018, before Saudi Arabia officially announced his death at the hands of a team that “came to negotiate with him to return to Saudi Arabia” after a “fist fight.”

A Saudi court has sentenced 8 people convicted of Khashoggi’s murder to prison terms ranging from 7 to 20 years, months after his eldest son Salah announced an amnesty for his father’s killers.

Nevertheless, Khashoggi’s fiancée, Turkish Hatice Cengiz, who was waiting for him outside the consulate, described the rulings as a “farce”, accusing Riyadh of closing the file without revealing the identities of the actual perpetrators of the crime.

“The international community will not accept this farce. The Saudi authorities have closed this file without the world knowing who was really responsible for killing Jamal,” Genghis wrote on Twitter.