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Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor is recommending the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, pictured here in 2011
SAUDI ARABIA’S top prosecutor, Saud al-Mojeb, recommended the death penalty today for five people accused of murdering Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.
A spokesman for Mr Mojeb’s office told reporters in Riyadh today that Mr Khashoggi’s killers had put in motion plans for the murder three days before his assassination.
The killers, the spokesman said, drugged and killed the writer inside the consulate, before dismembering the body and handing it over for disposal by an unidentified local collaborator. The body has yet to be found.
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
