Saudi Prosecutor to Seek Death Penalty for Khashoggi Killers
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Source: Bloomberg
Saudi Arabia will seek the death penalty for the killers of government critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, a Saudi prosecutor said Thursday.
Eleven people have been charged in Khashoggi’s murder out of 21 people held in the case, the prosecutor said.
Khashoggi, a former palace insider who turned critic, was strangled to death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 and his body dismembered, the Saudi chief prosecutor has said.
Turkey has shared an audio recording of the killing with the U.S., France, Canada, Germany, U.K., but it has stopped just short of blaming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 33-year-old who runs the affairs of the kingdom day to day. Saudi Arabia has vehemently denied he had any knowledge of the operation, which authorities initially denied then said was an interrogation gone wrong.
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ISTANBUL — Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it had indicted 11 people in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, and that it was seeking the death penalty against five of them for ordering and committing the killing, according the country’s public prosecutor.
The prosecutor, speaking at a news conference in the Saudi capital, said that the former deputy head of intelligence, Ahmed al-Asiri, had dispatched a Saudi team to Turkey to negotiate Khashoggi’s return to Saudi Arabia. The order to kill the journalist came from the head of the Saudi team in Istanbul, the prosecutor added.
Officials in several countries have said it is unlikely Khashoggi could have been killed without the knowledge of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de-facto leader. But no definitive evidence has emerged showing Mohammed ordered the operation. Saudi officials deny that the crown prince was in any way responsible for Khashoggi’s death.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the killing was premeditated and that the orders to kill Khashoggi had come from “the highest levels of the Saudi government,” without specifying exactly who was responsible.
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I'll bet lots of folks in the KGOP republican White House are wondering the same darn thing.
