WASHINGTON: Saudi Disents Jamal Widow Khashoggi on Friday questioned US President Joe Biden’s commitment to hold royal liability, three years after the brutal murder of the author.
Marking a warning, Hatice Cengiz traveled to Washington for a demonstration outside the Saudi Embassy and around the night near the United States Capitol where he launched a Khashoggi portrait made of Khashoggi column.
He sounded anxious that the days before the birthday, Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, met with Prince Crown Saudi Mohammed bin Salman who said murder.
“Is this accountability that the promised Biden,” he asked in Candlelight Vigil organized by rights groups.
“MBS takes Jamal from me and the whole world.
Will you hug him responsible or will you appreciate this murderer,” he asked, referring to the heir of 36 years which was clear by his initials.
Khashoggi, a leading Saudis who lives in self-exile in the United States, writes critically about MBS in the column in the Washington Post.
On October 2, 2018, he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to submit a document to marry Cengiz Turkey.
According to US and Turkish officials, the Saudi hit squad waited for strangling him and cutting his body, which had never been taken.
The US President said when Donald Trump played the episode, saying more importantly that Saudi Arabia bought US weapons and distributed hostility to Iran.
Biden has a harder approach, decreases intelligence and imposes sanctions on Saudi even though not in the Mahkota Son own.
US officials said Sullivan traveled to Saudi Arabia, where MBS was also a minister of defense, mostly to discuss the crisis in Yemen where the kingdom had led a devastating air campaign intended to defeat the Iranian-supported Huthi rebels.
Also discussed that night vigil was a brother of Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan, a red crescent aid worker who was arrested in 2018 and earlier this year was given a sentence of 20 years after criticizing Saudi leadership through an anonymous Twitter account.
“They tortured him very badly, they almost killed him.
They broke his hand and destroyed his fingers until they were flawed, said, ‘Is this the hand you tweeted with?'” Sister Areej al-Sadhan, who lives in California.
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He said he hoped the pressure of the new US government would win his brother’s release but it changed after Biden let MBS “from the hook.” “That’s how Saudi officials pay attention to the heart of President Biden, by doing more human rights violations,” he said.
Widow Khashoggi urges us to hold Saudi accountability 3 years later
