Bin Salman heads a repressive authoritarian regime in Saudi Arabia. Human rights activists and women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia routinely face abuse and torture by the regime.[118] Critics, journalists and former insiders are tortured and killed.[118][119] The regime has targeted Saudi dissidents who are located abroad, most famously Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist of The Washington Post, who was murdered by the regime.[119] Bin Salman has justified the mass arrests of human rights activists as being as necessary for enacting reforms in Saudi Arabia.[120]