translated from Spanish: Saudi prosecutors requested the death penalty for detainees by Khashoggi murder

attorney general of Saudi Arabia, Saud to the Moyeb, calls for the death penalty to five people detained for their alleged involvement in the murder of the period ISTA Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul on 2 October, reported today in the press an official from the Prosecutor’s office in Riyadh. The prosecution has filed charges against 11 of the 18 people arrested in connection with the case”Khashoggi”, said the official without revealing the names of the suspects. According to the official, a former Deputy Director of the intelligence service of Saudi Arabia is the mastermind of the murder of the journalist at the saudi Consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. “We are waiting for a response from Turkey to our request to receive tests and audio recordings related to the case”, he said. Khashoggi came on October 2 to the saudi Consulate to remove documents that would allow him to marry his Turkish fiancee. Never again left the diplomatic delegation. After strong international pressure, Saudi Arabia recognized the murder of Khashoggi. Riad announced that it would conduct its own investigation of what happened the Arab Kingdom accused of having sent by their own government officials to a special team of 15 people to execute this mission. In total, the saudi dome detained 18 suspects. This was intended to remove the powerful Crown Prince of targeted, according to critics. According to Riad, the special team sent to Turkey had to be persuaded to Khashoggi to travel with them to Saudi Arabia. The situation escalated and the journalist, who was exiled in the United States and collaborated with the newspaper “The Washington Post”, received an injection that killed him. His body was dismembered and removed outside the Consulate. Turkish justice ensures that Khashoggi was strangled shortly after entering the Consulate. His corpse was quartered. The Turkish authorities considered that the order to kill dissident comes from the upper echelons of the saudi Government. Ankara shared information from the secret service, of all recordings.

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