FILE PHOTO Jamal Khashoggi in March 2018 © Wikipedia / April Brady / POMED
A Saudi court has handed death sentences to five suspects charged in connection to the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Three others have received lengthy prison terms for their roles in the killing.
Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor announced the court’s ruling on Monday. Apart from the five sentenced to death, three additional suspects will spend 24 years behind bars. The prosecutor said that Saud al-Qahtani, a senior Saudi royal adviser, was investigated, but later released without being charged. The Saudi consul in Turkey was also released. The investigation found that there was no past enmity between those convicted and Khashoggi, the public prosecutor said.
Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul in October. Grisly details about the killing, including allegations that the journalist’s body was chopped up, made headlines and strained relations between Riyadh and many of its western allies.
Germany, as well as several other European states, imposed a ban on weapon sales to Saudi Arabia following the murder. Washington refused to take similar measures, with US President Donald Trump stating publicly that he didn’t want to lose Riyadh’s business.
In September, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accepted responsibility for the murder, but insisted that he did not order the killing.
These are minor officials being used as scapegoats while the real criminal and mentally insane MBS is given a free pass. Another fine example of Saudi “justice” and dismemberment practices.
Mohammed Ben Shlomo is a DEAD MAN WALKIN’
Any regime that murders their own employees in order to mask the guilt of the regime who order such murders is a regime in decline.
Who now, of a sane mind, would want any regime job that has the potential to embarrass the Saudi elite now ?
Who would want any job where their personal responsibility at work could easily be a death sentence ?
And a cruel death at that.
The Psychopathic Narcissistic Murderer of Journalists Mohammed Ben Shlomo is capable of Killing his own Mother…there will be a Coup…sooner or later…Behead Mohammed Ben Shlomo and dissolve him in Acid….to be lost in Oblivion…
More like : a Braindead man walking…
Now that the scapegoats are marked and ready to be sent to slaughterhouse, Germany and those countries with “conscience” can go back to normal business.
“Justice” is served and Mr. Bone Sawman is found to innocent as a lamb. A very ugly lamb. They even didn’t touch the butcher Qahtani. He probably is more clever than we give him credit for and had some kind of “insurance” to protect him from the fate of those 5.
That show was produced for Khashoggi’s very powerful friends in the States and elsewhere. Yemenis, Bahrainis, Shi’as and political/social dissents in the kingdom have no such powerful friends other than themselves and their god/belief. Hopefully justice for them will be a real one with no patsy sacrifice.