Fiancee of Khashoggi, human rights group sue Saudi crown prince in U.S.

 

FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia June 24, 2019. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a human rights group that he founded filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court on Tuesday with allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered him killed.

 

The civil lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also named more than 20 other Saudis as defendants. It coincides with complications in the U.S.-Saudi relationship over the 2018 slaying of Khashoggi, Riyadh’s human rights record, its role in Yemen’s civil war and other issues.

 

The Saudi embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. The crown prince - known by his initials MbS - has denied ordering Khashoggi's murder.

 

Khashoggi, who criticized the policies of the crown prince, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, in Washington Post columns, was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He went there to obtain papers he needed to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen.

 

Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a U.S.-based human rights group founded by Khashoggi, a legal resident of Virginia, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It names several of the crown prince's aides and officials who were convicted in Saudi Arabia of the murder. The prosecution declared the Saudi case closed.

 

The lawsuit charged that MbS, his co-defendants and others carried out a plot to "permanently silence Mr. Khashoggi" no later than the summer of 2018 after discovering his "plans to utilize DAWN as a platform to espouse democratic reform and promote human rights."

 

A lawsuit was filed in August in a U.S. court by a former top Saudi intelligence official who accused the crown prince of sending a hit team to kill him in Canada, where he lives in exile.

 

Both lawsuits were brought under a law allowing U.S. court actions against foreign officials over allegations of involvement in torture or extrajudicial killings.

 

(Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Editing by Mary Milliken and Grant McCool)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-21

 

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I truly hope she get's it over the smug, dictatorial, alleged murdering friend of the USA!

Another face you'd love to slap!

 

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

I truly hope she get's it over the smug, dictatorial, alleged murdering friend of the USA!

So..dose that mean you don't like the guy eh? you didn't made your self clear enough on that issue...

On 10/21/2020 at 8:30 AM, PatOngo said:

Another face you'd love to slap!

 

I’d love to slap it. Can I use a 50 lb sledgehammer to do the slapping?

No amount of money can bring him back but it can sure help her have a comfortable life I hope she works him for a boat load of brown envelopes nice big fat ones!!

MBS, I’d like to rip off his head and sh** down his throat.