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Khashoggi killing sentences

Tuesday, 24 December 2019 1:38 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 24 December 2019 1:44 AM ]

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Robert Inlakesh

Press TV, London

On the 2nd of October 2018, Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally dismembered after paying a visit to the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, Turkey.

Initially the Saudi regime's Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman and the Saudi leadership pleaded that they had not been involved in the perceived assassination of the dissident Journalist.

However evidence later emerged allegedly showing a connection between the Saudi leadership and a team of assassins who were sent to kill Khashoggi, some of whom are now being sentenced to death in the KSA.

The Saudis in an attempt to save their newly established national image, of reformation under the new Crown Prince, have painted the execution as a rogue operation.

A notion seemingly co-opted by the UK, US and EU which refuse to sanction Saudi Arabia for not only the Khashoggi killing but also the ongoing onslaught against Yemen and domestic human rights abuses.

Both Saud al-Qahtani, the former lead adviser to the Mohammed Bin Salman and Ahmed Al Assiri a former top Saudi intelligence figure, were amongst those viewed as the key assets to the Khashoggi murder.

However both have been cleared after the Saudi investigation allegedly failed to find evidence against them. Suspicion of their involvement came after both were sacked following the Khashoggi killing.

Ultimately the killing of Jamal Khashoggi has seemingly been given a pass by Saudi Arabia’s allies who have been accused of valuing Saudi money over International law with the recent sentencing of 5 people to death and three to protracted prison terms being viewed as the official Saudi whitewash of the killing and cutting off of loose ends connecting the regime to the crime.

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