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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Saudi prosecutor begins trial of 11 men charged with murdering Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh, denies crown Prince was involved<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Suspects in murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi went on trial Thursday </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s attorney general announced he will seek death penalty for five suspects<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman, was killed in Turkey as he went to the consulate to collect divorce papers</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The prominent Saudi journalist, a columnist for Washington Post was last seen entering Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>It is believed the 59-year-old former regime insider was strangled before his body was dismembered and disposed</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Leaked audio tapes later suggest that Khashoggi, a vociferous critic of the Crown Prince, had been attacked and dismembered while still alive, within minutes of entering the consulate</strong> in Istanbul</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, 33, is facing increasingly Herculean task in his efforts to deflect accusations of complicity in the killing of Khashoggi</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The 15-man Saudi hit squad believed to have killed Khashoggi arrived Turkey from Saudi Arabia, two hours before the killing, and departed immediately after<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Immediately after demands for justice began, Saudis initially denied knowledge of the writer’s whereabouts</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>This was later revised with a </strong>confirmation of his death and a <strong>kaleidoscope of shifting explanations and confirmation of his death </strong><strong> </strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-300830 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jamal-Khashoggi-5-1.jpg?resize=620%2C404&;ssl=1" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jamal-Khashoggi-5-1.jpg?w=699&;ssl=1 699w, https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jamal-Khashoggi-5-1.jpg?resize=300%2C196&;ssl=1 300w" alt="Jamal Khashoggi 5" width="620" height="404" data-attachment-id="300830" data-permalink="https://konniemoments.com/?attachment_id=300830" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jamal-Khashoggi-5-1.jpg?fit=699%2C456&;ssl=1" data-orig-size="699,456" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{";aperture";:";0";,";credit";:";ak Mathew";,";camera";:";";,";caption";:";";,";created_timestamp";:";1539792249";,";copyright";:";";,";focal_length";:";0";,";iso";:";0";,";shutter_speed";:";0";,";title";:";";,";orientation";:";0";}" data-image-title="Jamal Khashoggi 5" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jamal-Khashoggi-5-1.jpg?fit=300%2C196&;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Jamal-Khashoggi-5-1.jpg?fit=620%2C404&;ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1" data-lazy-loaded="1" /><strong>Five of the 11 men accused of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi [photo], in October last year are facing the death penalty as their trial begins in Saudi Arabia</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Thursday.<br />
All 11 accused were present with their lawyers at the opening hearing, according to a statement by the attorney general carried by Saudi&#8217;s state press agency.<br />
The names of the 11 defendants have not been officially released.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="media-library__list-item-centered" draggable="false" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Saudi-Hit-squad-4.png?ssl=1&;w=450" alt="Saudi Hit squad 4" width="701" height="538" />Turkish media published a list of 15 men who they say formed the hit squad, just days after the murder of Khashoggi on Turkish soil</h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Turkish media did publish a list of 15 men who they say formed the hit squad, taken from documents they showed as they passed through passport control.of those men are bodyguards of the kingdom&#8217;s de-facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman, who denies giving the order to kill Khashoggi.</div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">It is not known whether any of the 11 men in court appeared on Turkey&#8217;s list.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Authorities in the Turkish capital of Ankara have consistently accused Saudi Arabia of not cooperating on this issue.<br />
The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu also stated before that the Saudi prosecutor&#8217;s office has never shared any information about those 11 people who have been arrested.<br />
The decision to pursue the death sentence decision will most likely not be welcomed by Ankara, because it will mean that Saudi Arabia will prevent those people from talking, insiders observed.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Saudi prosecutors said they have sent five letters to Turkish officials asking to view evidence collected over the October 2 killing of Mr Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.</div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">&#8216;No response has been received to date and the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is still waiting for an answer,&#8217; the statement said.</div>
<div>Ankara has demanded the suspects <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/saudi-arabia-puts-jamal-khashoggi-murder-suspects-trial-190103100349820.html">face trial in Turkey</a>, a request the Saudis have refused.</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Turkish officials have previously said they shared evidence with Saudi Arabia and other nations over Mr Khashoggi&#8217;s killing.</div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Mr Khashoggi, a former regime insider , had written columns for the Washington Post critical of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<br />
&#8220;This death sentence decision&#8230; will most likely not be welcomed by Ankara, because it will mean that Saudi Arabia will prevent those people from talking&#8221; &#8211; Turkey maintains<br />
If the Saudis proceed with the execution, neither Turkey nor any other country will be able to hear the testimonies of the accused, sources said.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Khashoggi disappeared on October 2 when he went to the Saudi consulate in Turkey alongside fiancée Hatice Cengiz to obtain divorce papers from his previous marriage so he could remarry.<br />
Turkey concluded that he had been killed soon after walking into the embassy and his body dismembered by a team of Saudi assassins.<br />
The Arab kingdom initially denied the killing, before changing its story to say that he had died in a fist-fight.<br />
Saudi then changed its story several more times before finally acknowledging that he had been killed in an act of premeditated murder.<br />
But Saudi denied accusations by the regime&#8217;s critics that Bin Salman had given the order, instead blaming &#8216;rogue elements&#8217; of the state.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Khashoggi&#8217;s body has yet to be found amid reports that it was dismembered and given to a local &#8216;fixer&#8217; who dissolved it in acid.<br />
Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Prosecutor has said Khashoggi&#8217;s alleged killers planned his death three days in advance.<br />
While the 11 defendants review the charges with their lawyers, the Saudi Public Prosecutor said Thursday it would continue to investigate &#8220;the rest of the individuals in custody in relation to this crime.&#8221; In November, the prosecutor&#8217;s office said it had 21 suspects in custody.</p>
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Saudi prosecutor calls for the death penalty for five of 11 men charged with gruesome murder and dismemberment of US-based Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi – Trial opens in Riyadh
