The Turkish fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi brands a Saudi court ruling overturning five death sentences in his 2018 murder a “farce.”
“The ruling handed down today in Saudi Arabia again makes a complete mockery of justice,” Hatice Cengiz says in a statement posted on Twitter.
“The international community will not accept this farce.”
The Saudi ruling came after Khashoggi’s sons announced in May that they had “pardoned” the killers, paving the way for a less severe punishment, in a case that tarnished the reputation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
None of the defendants was named in what was described as the final court ruling on the case.
“The Saudi authorities are closing the case without the world knowing the truth of who is responsible for Jamal’s murder,” says Cengiz.
“Who planned it, who ordered it, where is the body? These are the most important questions that remain totally unanswered,” she writes.
— AFP
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