Turkey‘s president has urged Saudi Arabia to disclose who gave the order to murder Jamal Khashoggi.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Saudi Arabia to reveal the location of his body as well as the identity of the “local cooperator” the kingdom’s officials said had taken the journalist’s body after he was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.
It comes after a UN investigator said Khashoggi was the victim of an “extrajudicial execution” carried out by the Saudi state and said those who orchestrated and committed the killing “are high enough to represent the state”.
After Saudi officials initially denying having anything to do with Khashoggi’s disappearance, the official account changed to say an internal investigation suggested he was accidentally killed in a botched operation to return him to the kingdom.
But on Thursday the kingdom’s prosecutor general said the journalist’s murder was a premeditated crime.
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"No one should have any reasons not to believe them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the Kremlin welcomed the investigation into the slaying.
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Jamal Khashoggi's son has reportedly been allowed to leave Saudi Arabia and is travelling to the US.
The Saudi regime has lifted a travel ban that had been holding Salah Khashoggi and his family in the country, said Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch's executive director for the Middle East.
Reuters also reported Salah had flown out of Saudi Arabia, citing two sources close to his family. The sources declined to disclose his destination or other details of his departure.
On Tuesday, the Saudi foreign ministry released a picture of a stony-faced Salah Khashoggi meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been accused of murdering his father.
The younger Khashoggi had received a royal summons to meet the crown prince, something Ms Whitson described as "cruel and bizarre".
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Did the crown prince's first public words on the Khashoggi killing this week shore up his political position? And what does this turmoil mean for Saudi's economic modernisation dreams? Ben Chu reports from the Future Investment Initiative in RiyadhPeter Altmaier, who is on a two-day visit to Turkey to boost trade ties, praised Turkish officials for their efforts to shed light on the killing.
On Wednesday, Turkish authorities were granted permission by Saudi officials to carry out inspections at the well after initially being denied access.
The non-binding resolution also demands a halt to exports "of surveillance systems and other dual-use items that may be used in Saudi Arabia for the purposes of repression."
Leading Greens politician Ska Keller said "EU countries must not continue to turn a blind eye to the serious human rights violations committed by the Saudi government."
Many EU nations are debating a halt to arms exports but there has been no clear push for an embargo.
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He knew all about power and danger. Almost a quarter of a century ago, he turned up at my hotel in Khartoum and drove me into the Sudanese desert to meet Osama bin Laden"In fact, we are more unhappy because it has tarnished the name of the kingdom," he added.
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