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A Saudi Arabian court on Monday sentenced eight people for the murder of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed on October 3, 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Saudi Arabia’s state television revealed few details about the sentences of the eight people, whose names were not released. Five defendants were sentenced to twenty years in prison, one to ten years and the other two to seven years.
The trial was harshly criticized by human rights organizations and the United Nations, which carried out a parallel investigation and accused Saudi Arabia of failing to investigate any senior officials for ordering the murder. The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, Agnes Callamard, published in June 2019 a report of more than 100 pages, drawn up after a six-month investigation, which claimed that there was “credible evidence” that it warranted a further investigation into the individual responsibilities of senior Saudi officials, and also of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, considered the instigator of the assassination.
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