He was unambigously a journalist, and unambiguously murdered by a despot for the ideas he expressed in the press.

I care what clubs he belonged to, or what side jobs he did for who, insofar as it would obviously colour my reading of his articles. But as a poster boy for a free press, he's no worse than Julian Assange or Caruana Galizia.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}