The fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi files a complaint against the Saudi crown prince

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Hatice Cengiz, the Turkish fiancee of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi assassinated in Turkey in October 2018, filed a civil lawsuit in Washington on October 20 against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and several alleged sponsors of the murder. Collaborator of the Washington Post and criticism of Riyadh regime after being near, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered Oct. 2, 2018 and his body cut into pieces in the consulate of Saudi Arabia to Istanbul, where he had gone to retrieve a document. His remains have never been found. Hatice Cengiz believes that members of the Saudi Embassy in Washington lured her fiance to the Saudi consulate in Turkey by a ruse [according to which] Turkey was the only place where he could obtain the document he had. need.

A complaint against the conspiracy organized against Jamal Khashoggi. This fatal misdirection took place in the United States and was part of a larger conspiracy intended to have a direct impact on Mr. Khashoggi's political activities in the United States adds the complaint filed in a federal court in the American capital.

The complaint, which joined the opposition group led by Jamal Khashoggi, Democracy for the Arab World Now targets in particular the crown prince and several members of his inner circle including the former Adviser Saoud al-Qahtani and the former intelligence number two, General Ahmed al-Assiri. The two men, identified by Turkish investigators as the instigators of the murder, were prosecuted by an Istanbul court . Hatice Cengiz claims to have suffered a loss of love, comfort, intimacy, moral support and affection with the death of Jamal Khashoggi, whom she had religiously married while awaiting their civil union. She seeks damages, the amount of which should be determined by the court.

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi plunged Saudi Arabia into one of its worst diplomatic crises and tarnished the image of the crown prince, who was named by Turkish and American officials as the sponsor of the murder. After having denied the assassination, then advanced several versions, Ryad affirmed that it had been committed by agents having acted alone and without receiving orders from their leaders. In December 2019, five Saudis were sentenced to death and three others to prison terms by a court in Riyadh. The death sentences were commuted on September 7, 2020.