For example, it is legally irrelevant whether, in fact, the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered Khashoggi’s death or not. Some legal issues that arise in that regard are trivial, even if they are politically extremely controversial. Khashoggi was the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing, planned and perpetrated by officials of the State of Saudi Arabia and others acting under the direction of these State agents,’ a ‘grave violation’ of the human right to life. 10 and 7) that the evidence ‘demonstrates a prime facie case that Mr. Her report, based inter alia on a field visit to Turkey, concluded (paras. The UN Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, has launched an investigation into Kashoggi’s death as part of her mandate as of the time of writing, she has published a set of preliminary observations and plans to submit a final report to the UN Human Rights Council in June. Saudi Arabia is conducting a secret trial of 11 individuals accused of his murder the trial is widely regarded as an attempt to whitewash the involvement in the killing of the highest levels of the Saudi government.

It has now been six months since Khashoggi’s killing.

According to media reports relying on the findings of the governments of Turkey and the United States, Khashoggi was killed by Saudi agents and his body was then dismembered with a bone saw his remains are yet to be found. He was visiting the consulate to obtain a certificate of divorce from his former wife, so that he could proceed to marry his Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, who was waiting for him in a car outside the consulate. On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist residing in the United States, where he was a columnist for the Washington Post, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

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