Sarah Leah Whitson

Inserted 3 years ago

“Thank you, Joe Biden, for transparency about Jamal Khashoggi's murder. Now we need sanctions on the Saudi prince responsible. The DNI's [US Office of the Director of National Intelligence] report today confirms what we have long known to be true: Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the execution of Jamal Khashoggi. President Biden should now fulfil his promise to hold MBS [Mohammed Bin Salman] accountable for this murder by, at minimum, imposing the same sanctions on him as those imposed on his underling culprits and ending the weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia that would be controlled by an unelected, brutal murderer. The release of the DNI report is only a small part of the evidence we're seeking from the US government about the murder of Khashoggi, including regarding US officials close to MBS who potentially facilitated a cover-up.”

Aljazeera

Executive Director of the Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a US-Based rights group founded by Jamal Khashoggi