Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman must be punished after an American intelligence report found that he approved the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident journalist’s fiancee Hatice Cengiz said on Twitter Monday.
“It is essential that the crown prince… should be punished without delay,” Cengiz wrote in a tweet.
“If the crown prince is not punished, it will forever signal that the main culprit can get away with murder, which will endanger us all and be a stain on our humanity,” Cengiz wrote, emphasizing that the crime prince “should be punished without delay."
She stressed that “Starting with the Biden administration, it is vital for all world leaders to ask themselves if they are prepared to shake hands with a person whose culpability as a murderer has been proven.”
Cengiz added that “ignoring this fact and remaining in limbo without any punishment will cause us to lose our universal values of humanity."
Khashoggi went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018 to obtain documents so that he could marry Cengiz but was killed and dismembered by a team of agents linked to the crown prince, the New York Post reported.
The CIA report, which was released Friday, said that the crown prince "approved the operation."
The White House later announced new visa restrictions on 76 Saudis, as well as asset-freeze sanctions, but these penalties were not against the prince himself.
A senior Biden official explained on Sunday that “the aim is a recalibration [of ties] — not a rupture … [due to] the important interests that we do share.”
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