French judge opens inquiry into Khashoggi killing
The judge will examine allegations of torture and enforced disappearance as rights groups seek accountability for Jamal Khashoggi’s killing.
- A Paris magistrate began investigating the 2018 assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi after rights groups filed a complaint against Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
- The Court of Appeal ruled in favor of rights groups on Monday, clearing the path after years of legal wrangling involving DAWN, RSF, and Trial International seeking justice for the journalist's killing.
- Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, and a 2021 US intelligence report concluded the Crown Prince was directly responsible for the killing.
- RSF lawyer Emmanuel Daoud called the crime an "abominable crime, decided and planned at the highest level of the Saudi state," while Trial International's Henri Thulliez said there "should no longer be any obstacle" to investigation.
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A French judge will look into complaints against Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi's killing
A French investigating judge will examine a complaint by two rights groups accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
A French court has launched an investigation into the case of The Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
The French Justice is going to investigate the murder of the Saudi journalist of the U.S. daily The Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi, who was quartered at the consulate of his country in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018, as confirmed by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office. The opening of the investigations follows complaints filed in 2022 by several associations against Saudi Prince Mohamed Bin Salmán (known as MBS) for torture and enforced …
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