Posted on 09/07/2020 7:32:41 AM PDT by knighthawk
A Saudi court has issued final verdicts Monday in the 2018 killing of journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, sentencing eight to prison, according to state television.
The names of those convicted were not made public, but Riyadh Criminal Court reportedly ordered a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for five. Another received a 10-year sentence, and two others were ordered to serve seven years in prison.
Yet the trial has been widely criticized by rights groups and an independent U.N. investigator, who noted that no senior officials nor anyone suspected of ordering the killing were found guilty. The independence of the court has also been brought into question.
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“...killing of journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi”
For the record, he was a Player, not a ‘journalist’, anymore than the Antifa terrorists making the same claim.
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