The fiancée of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called for Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to be “punished without delay” over his killing.
“This will not only bring the justice we have been seeking…. but it could also prevent similar acts recurring,” Hatice Cengiz said in a statement.
It comes after a US intelligence report found that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved Khashoggi’s murder.
Saudi Arabia has rejected the report.
Crown Prince Mohammed, who is effectively the kingdom’s ruler, has denied any role in the murder.
Khashoggi was killed while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2018 and his body was dismembered.
The 59-year-old journalist had once been an adviser to the Saudi government and close to the royal family, but he fell out of favour and went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017.
From there, he wrote a monthly column in the Washington Post in which he criticised the policies of Prince Mohammed.
In his first column for the newspaper, Khashoggi said he feared being arrested in an apparent crackdown on dissent overseen by the prince.
Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC
