'I hope this criminal case in Turkey brings to light the whereabouts of Jamal’s body (and) the evidence against the killers,' his fiancee Hatice Cengiz said
Hatice Cengiz, Turkish fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, gives a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in Rome on Dec. 17, 2019.A Turkish court will open the trial on Friday of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a step his fiancee hopes will shed more light on the death and reveal where his body was hidden.
It says 18 other defendants carried out the killing by suffocating Khashoggi, who had grown increasingly critical of Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. All 20 defendants are expected to be tried in absentia.The October 2018 attack at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul prompted widespread revulsion, damaged relations between Ankara and Riyadh, and tarnished the prince’s international image.
“I hope this criminal case in Turkey brings to light the whereabouts of Jamal’s body the evidence against the killers,” his fiancee Hatice Cengiz, who was waiting for him outside the consulate on the day of his killing, told Reuters. In December a Saudi court sentenced five people to death and three to jail for Khashoggi’s killing after a largely secretive trial. Khashoggi’s family later said they forgave his murderers, paving the way for their formal reprieve.
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