The street in front of Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington has been renamed after Saudi activist and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi regime has consistently denied Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was involved in his 2018 death. Read more here:
Participants stand for a group photo after unveiling a new street sign for Jamal Khashoggi Way outside of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Wednesday 15 June, 2022 in Washington. The District of Columbia is renaming the street in front of Saudi Arabia's embassy Jamal Khashoggi Way, in a message to Riyadh after agents from the country killed dissident Saudi activist and journalist in 2018.
"We intend to remind the people who are hiding behind these doors ... that we hold them responsible and we will hold them accountable for the murder of our friend," said Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of DAWN, the pro-Arab world democracy organisation founded by Mr Khashoggi prior to his death.
The Saudi government initially denied any wrongdoing. But under mounting international pressure, Riyadh eventually admitted that Mr Khashoggi had been killed inside the consulate in what the Saudis characterised as a repatriation effort gone wrong.
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