Tag: Jamal Khashoggi
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‘Saudis who killed Khashoggi received paramilitary training in US’
The New York Times report states that the U.S. State Department and other government agencies are responsible for vetting foreign forces trained on U.S. soil,
June 23, 2021 -
20 Saudis on trial in absentia over Khashoggi murder case
The 59-year-old journalist, who went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017, was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on October 2, 2018 to obtain papers he needed to marry Cengiz.
July 4, 2020 -
The Khashoggi mystery
It undermined a series of steps Saudi Arabia had recently announced that appeared to show it was adopting basic human rights standards, such as dropping the death penalty for minors and ending the practice of flogging.
May 26, 2020 -
‘Forgive those who killed our father’: Sons of slain Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
The 59-year-old had been a columnist for the Washington Post since 2017 after he left Saudi Arabia and was openly critical of his country’s monarchy.
May 22, 2020 -
Saudi crown prince got Amazon owner Jeff Bezos phone hacked in 2018: Report
Bezos' phone got hacked, a UK newspaper said, after he received a WhatsApp message 'apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince'.
January 22, 2020 -
Antithesis of Justice
With Amnesty International describing the outcome as a “whitewash which brings neither justice nor truth”, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, supposedly the heir apparent, remains under a dense cloud.
December 25, 2019 -
5 sentenced to death for Jamal Khashoggi murder; US calls Saudi trial an ‘important step’
Three other convicts received a total of 24 years in jail for 'covering up the crime'.
December 24, 2019 -
After reports of spying on Twitter users, CIA chief meets Saudi King
Two former Twitter employees Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Alzabarah, allegedly worked to unmask the ownership details behind dissident Twitter accounts on behalf of someone prosecutors designated "Royal Family Member-1."
November 8, 2019 -
Mea Culpa
The documentary, The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is scheduled to be aired on 1 October, a day before the first anniversary of Khashoggi’s death.
September 29, 2019 -
Khashoggi murder happened ‘under my watch’: MBS
Khashoggi -- a supporter-turned-critic of the Crown Prince and a Washington Post columnist -- was killed and reportedly dismembered in October 2018 by a team of 15 agents sent from Riyadh. His body has not been found until now.
September 26, 2019 -
We have to act’: UN rights expert urges US action over Jamal Khashoggi murder
During a press briefing in London hosted by human rights groups, Callamard said, "It has the jurisdiction or at least the interest to take action".
July 10, 2019 -
UN ‘Paralysis’ delaying justice for Jamal Khashoggi murder: Expert
Callamard's report concluded that Khashoggi's death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 was "an extrajudicial execution" and that Riyadh was responsible, with evidence linking Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the crime.
June 27, 2019 -
Rogue Prince
Some of the top executives who, in the aftermath of the killing had pulled out of the Crown Prince’s “Davos in the Desert” gathering, have attended another financial conference in Riyadh, though their equation with the kingdom is now less than cordial.
June 22, 2019 -
UN report piles pressure on Saudi Crown Prince over Khashoggi murder
UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard's released a report on Wednesday insisting that there was enough evidence against Salman.
June 21, 2019 -
Saudi minister slams UN report over Khashoggi murder, calls it ‘baseless allegation’
Saudi minister Adel Al-Jubei further said that the report was intended to "undermine the Kingdom and its leadership" and that it “lacked credibility".
June 20, 2019 -
‘Credible evidence’ linking Saudi Crown Prince to Jamal Khashoggi murder: UN expert
Khashoggi, a US resident, had written critically of Prince Mohammed and was killed in what Riyadh described as a rogue operation
June 19, 2019 -
‘Jamal Khashoggi death painful, stop exploiting case’, says Saudi Crown Prince
"The death of Jamal Khashoggi is a very painful crime," Prince Mohammed told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in an interview published Sunday.
June 16, 2019