Saudi Verdict In Khashoggi Killing Has No ‘Legal, Moral Legitimacy’ – UN expert

A UN expert on Monday dismissed a Saudi court ruling in the case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, decrying especially that top officials who … Continue reading Saudi Verdict In Khashoggi Killing Has No ‘Legal, Moral Legitimacy’ – UN expert

By Emmanuel Egobiambu

Updated September 7, 2020

Khashoggi Killers 'Will Be Prosecuted In Saudi Arabia' - Govt — In this file photo taken on December 15, 2014 (FILES) In this file photo taken on December 15, 2014, general manager of Alarab TV, Jamal Khashoggi, looks on during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama. Saudi Arabia on Saturday, October 20, 2018, admitted that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been killed inside its consulate in Istanbul, state media reported. “The discussions between Jamal Khashoggi and those he met at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul… devolved into a fistfight, leading to his death,” the Saudi Press Agency said, citing the public prosecutor. MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH / AFP

A UN expert on Monday dismissed a Saudi court ruling in the case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, decrying especially that top officials who allegedly ordered his killing had walked free.

“The Saudi Prosecutor performed one more act today in this parody of justice. But these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy,” UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard said in a tweet.

She denounced the fact that “the high-level officials who organised and embraced the execution … have walked free from the start”, and that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman “has remained well protected against any kind of meaningful scrutiny in his country”.

AFP