Turkish citizen Hatice Cengiz claimed personal injury and financial loss for Khashoggi’s death
Istanbul, Turkey:
The Turkish fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Monday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be “punished without delay” for the murder.
The United States on Friday declassified a report that publicly accused the crown prince of condoning Khashoggi’s murder at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
But the United States failed to apply sanctions against the 35-year-old de facto leader, known by his initials MBS.
“It is essential that the crown prince, who ordered the brutal murder of an innocent and innocent person, be punished without delay,” Khashoggi’s fiancee Hatice Cengiz said in a statement posted on her official Twitter account in English and Arabic.
“This will not only bring the justice we have been seeking for Jamal, it could also prevent similar acts from being repeated in the future,” he said.
Khashoggi, a US resident and critic of Prince Mohammed who wrote for The Washington Post, was assassinated and dismembered at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul after entering to receive documentation of his wedding to Cengiz.
Cengiz said that “after this report, there is no longer political legitimacy for the Crown Prince.”
But he said the US report did not go far enough.
“The truth, which was already known, has been revealed once more, and now it is confirmed.”
“However, this is not enough,” he warned, “since the truth can only be meaningful when justice is done.”
Cengiz said that if the crown prince was not punished, “it will be a sign forever that the main culprit can get away with it, which will put us all in danger and be a stain on our humanity.”
The Saudi government, which initially said it had no information on Khashoggi, says it accepts responsibility for the murder, but considers it a rogue operation that did not involve the prince.
In a statement late Friday, the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry said it “completely rejects” the declassified US report.
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