KHASHOGGI VERDICT IN SAUDI ARABIA A WHITEWASH

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Responding to a Saudi Arabian court’s sentencing of five people to death and three others to prison for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East Research Director, said:
 
“This verdict is a whitewash which brings neither justice nor the truth for Jamal Khashoggi and his loved ones. The trial has been closed to the public and to independent monitors, with no information available as to how the investigation was carried out.
 
“The verdict fails to address the Saudi authorities’ involvement in this devastating crime or clarify the location of Jamal Khashoggi’s remains.
 
“Saudi Arabia’s courts routinely deny defendants access to lawyers and condemn people to death following grossly unfair trials. Given the lack of transparency from the Saudi authorities, and in the absence of an independent judiciary, only an international, independent and impartial investigation can serve justice for Jamal Khashoggi.”
 
Background
The Public Prosecution’s findings into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018  were published by the Saudi Press Agency today. The trial involved 31 individuals, 11 of whom were charged and eight were convicted today. Five were sentenced to death and three were sentenced to prison terms. They were tried and sentenced before the Criminal Court in Riyadh. The verdict is subject to an appeal.

A UN report released by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, in June 2019 concluded that Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of “an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under human rights law”. Saudi Arabia failed to cooperate with Special Rapporteur Callamard during her investigation.

Media contact: Mariya Parodi, media@aiusa.org
 
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/khashoggi-verdict-in-saudi-arabia-a-whitewash/

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Did anyone expect anything else?

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19 hours ago, 90DayFinancier said:

Responding to a Saudi Arabian court’s sentencing of five people to death and three others to prison for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East Research Director, said:
 
“This verdict is a whitewash which brings neither justice nor the truth for Jamal Khashoggi and his loved ones. The trial has been closed to the public and to independent monitors, with no information available as to how the investigation was carried out.
 
“The verdict fails to address the Saudi authorities’ involvement in this devastating crime or clarify the location of Jamal Khashoggi’s remains.
 
“Saudi Arabia’s courts routinely deny defendants access to lawyers and condemn people to death following grossly unfair trials. Given the lack of transparency from the Saudi authorities, and in the absence of an independent judiciary, only an international, independent and impartial investigation can serve justice for Jamal Khashoggi.”
 
Background
The Public Prosecution’s findings into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018  were published by the Saudi Press Agency today. The trial involved 31 individuals, 11 of whom were charged and eight were convicted today. Five were sentenced to death and three were sentenced to prison terms. They were tried and sentenced before the Criminal Court in Riyadh. The verdict is subject to an appeal.

A UN report released by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, in June 2019 concluded that Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of “an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under human rights law”. Saudi Arabia failed to cooperate with Special Rapporteur Callamard during her investigation.

Media contact: Mariya Parodi, media@aiusa.org
 
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/khashoggi-verdict-in-saudi-arabia-a-whitewash/

If you know anything about the KSA then you know this was the plan since day 1. Once they started taking heat for it they planned a show trial just like this

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Not a current event nor a HST.

 

You mess with the bull, you get the horn.  Many governments don't believe in free speech for their dissidents.  

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1 hour ago, ALFKAD said:

Not a current event nor a HST.

 

You mess with the bull, you get the horn.  Many governments don't believe in free speech for their dissidents.  

 

   The article was published on Dec 19th. 

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Just now, Steeleballz said:

 

   The article was published on Dec 19th. 

He was killed over a year ago.  

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1 minute ago, ALFKAD said:

He was killed over a year ago.  

 

  The article is about the trial, which concluded on 12/19/2019, and the sentencing. 

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2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  The article is about the trial, which concluded on 12/19/2019, and the sentencing. 

Meh.  There was no trial.  Just the elimination of someone who hated his government and the subsequent dog and pony show.

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3 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

Meh.  There was no trial.  Just the elimination of someone who hated his government and the subsequent dog and pony show.

And five people losing their right to live.  Thankfully, we live in the US.

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Just now, ALFKAD said:

Meh.  There was no trial.  Just the elimination of someone who hated his government and the subsequent dog and pony show.

 

   I agree, and as Bill said, who would have expected anything different. Still it is a current event, even though the outcome was probably a foregone conclusion.

 

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21 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

And five people losing their right to live.  Thankfully, we live in the US.

Did they actually die though?  I wonder.   Hard to say for sure with a government who is willing to murder a dissident so openly.

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3 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

And five people losing their right to live.  Thankfully, we live in the US.

Unless you live in Texas...

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2 minutes ago, OriZ said:

Unless you live in Texas...

Does Texas execute citizens?

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55 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

Does Texas execute citizens?

I assume you're trying to make a distinction between "citizens" and "criminals", a distinction I refuse to make, especially considering 1. the state(any state, any governmental body) has no moral right to make that decision 2. There are many wrongful convictions(god bless the innocence project) and Texas is especially notorious for it, literally it's enough to have eyewitnesses to put you to death which would be totally laughable if it wasn't so horrid. So, yeah, all things considered, and in light of many executions that should have never occurred, I definitely don't see any difference between that and this particular facade.