Two years on, Khashoggi murder unresolved, body still missing
Al JazeeraKillers of Saudi journalist in Istanbul consulate are yet to be held to account, says UN rapporteur. Friday marks two years since Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Activists and human rights groups have said the murder was premeditated and carried out upon the directive of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, a charge Riyadh denies. Agnes Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, also found “credible evidence” that MBS and other senior Saudi officials were liable for the killing, in an investigative report published in June 2019. According to the indictment, Saudi Arabia’s former deputy intelligence chief Ahmed al-Asiri is accused of establishing a hit team and planning the murder of the journalist, who wrote critically of the Saudi government.