Saudi Arabia sentenced five men to death for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the country's prosecutors said on Monday. Three others were sentenced to 24 years in jail in the case.
Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Some media reports claimed CIA concluded the assassination was ordered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, but Saudi authorities insisted he was not responsible. Saudi prosecutors charged 11 people for killing the journalist during a "rogue operation" and demanded a death sentence for at least five of them.
Today, the prosecutors noted that former MBS' former top aides, deputy intelligence chief Ahmed Al Assiri and his ex-media consultant Saud Al Qahtani, have not been charged in the case and were released.
