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The “Jenner and Block” law firm, on behalf of Khadija Genghis, the fiancé of the late Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the organization “Democracy Now for the Arab World”, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington against the crown prince. Saudi Arabian Mohammed bin Salman and more than 20 people involved in The Khashoggi murder case
Keith M. Harper, a former U.S. ambassador and one of the law firm’s partners, said the goals of the lawsuit filed Tuesday were to hold the perpetrators responsible for the torture and brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, who resided in the United States. , as well as determining the whole truth through legal proceedings.
Robert C. Harmla, a partner at the Jenner and Block law firm, said he plans to murder a US resident, writes for the Washington Post and runs a Washington-based organization that subjects defendants to the United States justice system. United.
The Washington Post reported that the lawsuit brought by Khadija Cengiz and Democracy Now for the Arab World, a non-profit organization that Khashoggi founded in the United States before his death, accuses Mohammed bin Salman of ordering the liquidation of the late journalist to permanently extinguish their calls for democratic reforms in the Arab world.
The newspaper noted that the CIA concluded in 2018 that the Saudi crown prince had ordered the assassination of Khashoggi, contradicting Saudi statements that he was not involved in the assassination, subsequently sparking widespread outrage around the world.
He quoted Genghis as saying yesterday during a video conference involving several lawyers who filed the lawsuit, that the Saudi crown prince killed Khashoggi because he called for democracy in the Middle East, and that he attacked him because he asked for it while he was in the United States.
Genghis urged the US government to support him in his quest to uncover the truth about Khashoggi’s murder and hold those responsible for the crime accountable.
Khashoggi is reportedly killed and his body dismembered inside his country’s embassy in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2018.
Earlier last month, the Criminal Court in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, issued final verdicts in the Khashoggi’s murder case and sentenced eight convicts to prison terms of between 7 and 20 years, reversing previous sentences that had imposed the sentence. death to five of them.
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