JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S FIANCEE SEEKS PUNISHMENT FOR SAUDI PRINCE

  • 02/03/2021

 The Turkish fiancee of  slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi  demanded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud be "punished without delay" over the murder.

"It is essential that the Crown Prince, who ordered the brutal murder of a blameless and innocent person, should be punished without delay," tKhashoggi's fiancee Hatice Cengiz said  in a statement."This will not only bring the justice we have been seeking.... but it could also prevent similar acts recurring.In the statement, Cengiz, a Turkish academic researcher, made an appeal to world leaders to distance themselves from the Crown Prince and impose sanctions on the Kingdom.

Cengiz's statement comes three days after a de-classified US intelligence report released on February 26 assessed that the Crown Prince approved an operation to "capture or kill" Saudi Khashoggi in 2018.

"We assess that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi," the report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said.

Saudi Arabia has rejected the report. Khashoggi, the 59-year-old prominent journalist known to have covered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of the late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was killed by a team of Saudi agents during a visit to the Kingdom's consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, to obtain papers he needed in order to marry Cengiz. In its probe, the Saudi public prosecution concluded the murder was not premeditated.

It said the killing was ordered by the head of a "negotiations team" sent to Istanbul to bring Khashoggi back to the Kingdom "by means of persuasion" or, if that failed, "by force". The slain journalist's remains remain missing till date.

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