Khashoggi’s fiancée successfully files lawsuit against Saudi’s MBS

Lawyers for the fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Hatice Cengiz, and advocacy group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), successfully served Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) with the complaint they filed in the District of Columbia Federal District Court on 20 October 2020. The complaint alleges that the 35-year-old crown prince, widely known as MBS, and several other Saudi officials were “acting in a conspiracy and with premeditation, kidnapped, bound, drugged and tortured, and assassinated US-resident journalist and democracy advocate Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey,” and that the murder caused the plaintiffs grievous injury and harm. The lawsuit went on to say that “the ruthless torture and murder of Mr Khashoggi shocked the … Continue reading Khashoggi’s fiancée successfully files lawsuit against Saudi’s MBS