Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three more to jail ter...
DUBAI - Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three more to jail terms totaling 24 years over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October last year.
The Saudi public prosecutor did not name the sentenced individuals on Monday. But the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, in a report issued in June, identified 11 individuals on trial and those facing death sentences, based on information from various governments’ sources. According to a Saudi official, Mutreb was selected for the Istanbul operation because he already knew Khashoggi from their time working together at the Saudi embassy in London and could convince him to return to Saudi Arabia.Tubaigy is a forensic expert at the Saudi interior ministry’s criminal evidence department, according to a biography by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.
Asiri joined the military in 2002, according to Saudi media reports, and was spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition which intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015. He was named deputy chief of foreign intelligence by royal decree in April 2017.Madani led the intelligence efforts for the 15-man team in Istanbul, the Saudi official said.
Also on trial were MOHAMMED SAAD AL-ZAHRANI and SAIF SAAD AL-QAHTANI, whom the U.N. report said were at the consulate when the killing occurred, and MANSOUR OTHMAN ABAHUSSAIN, who was at the consul general’s residence, as well as MUFLIH SHAYA AL-MUSLIH, a member of the consular staff.Qahtani, seen as the right-hand man to Prince Mohammed, was removed as a royal court adviser and is the highest-profile figure implicated in the incident.He joined the royal court under the late King Abdullah.
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