A Turkish court suspended the Jamal Khashoggi murder trial on Thursday, transferring the case in which 26 Saudi nationals stand accused of brutally killing and dismembering the Washington Post journalist over to Saudi Arabia.
The ruling effectively ends any chance at justice in the case, according to human rights groups. Saudi Arabia had refused to extradite the accused killers to Turkey to stand trial.
Khashoggi, a U.S. resident, was killed in October 2018 at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where he was seeking to obtain paperwork to marry Cengiz. Reports indicate that a Saudi special operations team drugged Khashoggi at the consulate and dismembered him with a bone saw while he was still alive. His body was never found.
“By transferring the case of a murder that was committed on its territory, Turkey will be knowingly and willingly sending the case back into the hands of those who bare its responsibility,” Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said. “Indeed, the Saudi system has repeatedly failed to cooperate with the Turkish prosecutor, and it is clear that justice cannot be delivered by a Saudi court.
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