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Saudi admits journalist Khashoggi dismembered in consulate
RIYADH, Nov 15, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Five Saudi officials face the death
penalty over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was drugged and
dismembered inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, Riyadh’s public
prosecutor said Thursday.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and vocal dissident, died after
being drugged by the five accused and then dismembered, a spokesman for the
public prosecutor’s office said in the first Saudi acknowledgement of the
manner of his killing.
The journalist’s body parts were then handed over to an agent outside the
consulate grounds, the spokesman said.
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