A group of Saudi rights activists, researchers and journalists have severely censured the ultra-conservative kingdom’s “corrupt” judicial system over shielding the masterminds of the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October last year, describing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the primary culprit in the case. The ...
The UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, has called on a probe into Saudi Arabia’s chain of command in order to find organisers of the murder of Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Under international human rights law, the killing of Mr. Khashoggi was an extrajudicial execution for ...
