Saudi Arabia: Eight years after Khashoggi’s murder, IPI renews call for justice
Eight unnamed Saudi individuals were sentenced in December 2019 for their involvement in Khashoggi’s killing after a closed-door trial in the Kingdom that human rights and watchdog groups have widely criticised for allowing senior officials to evade punishment.
In 2020, Turkey indicted and put on trial in absentia 20 Saudi nationals in connection to Khashoggi’s killing after Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish extradition requests.
Eight years after Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was violently murdered by Saudi operatives in Istanbul, the International Press Institute (IPI) repeats its demand for accountability.
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