LONDON - Amnesty International will host a high-profile event in London next Tuesday  on the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

 

The event - “Jamal Khashoggi's Assassination: The Open Secret” - is organised by the ALQST Saudi Arabian human rights organisation and the Diwan London organisation, and will be attended by the following speakers:

 

 

Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur investigating Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

 

Hatice Cengiz, Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée

 

Karen Attiah, Jamal Khashoggi’s editor at the Washington Post

 

Yahya Assiri, founder of ALQST

 

Moderator: Sahar Al-Faifi, civil rights activist and blogger

 

 

Last month, Agnes Callamard said there was “credible evidence” that senior Saudi Arabian officials were implicated in Khashoggi’s “premeditated” murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October.

 

Khashoggi was reportedly strangled moments after entering the building on 2 October and his body has never been recovered. Eleven alleged suspects are currently on trial before the Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh for the murder.

 

Amnesty has said the trial “lacks credibility and transparency”.  - (ANA) -

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