Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi

Six months after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. President Donald Trump has still done nothing to hold those responsible accountable, The Washington Post said on April 1.

A UN's human rights expert demanded on March 28 that Saudi Arabia carry out a public trial proceeding for the killing case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

More than a year before the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved a secret campaign to silence dissenters, The New York Times reported on March 17.

Turkish Presidency Communications Director Fahrettin Altun has criticized the head of the Saudi human rights committee for his resistance to an international probe into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Senate must push for accountability after U.S. President Donald Trump defied Congress and did not report whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's death, according to The Washington Post.       

Retired General John Abizaid, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, defended the U.S.-Saudi relationship on March 6 as lawmakers accused the kingdom of a litany of misdeeds and criticized its crown prince as going "full gangster."

A proposal to use 15 million euros in Saudi Arabian government funds for Milan's La Scala opera house came under fire on March 5 because of anger over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

European countries will urge Saudi Arabia this week to release detained activists and cooperate with a U.N.-led probe into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the first rebuke of the kingdom at the Human Rights Council, diplomats and campaigners said.

The body of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was likely burned in a large oven at the Saudi consulate general's residence in Istanbul, according to an Al Jazeera investigation.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has refused to say whether he believed the CIA's assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played a role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.