This archive report was first published on 23 December 2019.
On December 23, 2019, a Saudi court handed down a verdict in the high-profile murder case of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident writer and columnist for The Washington Post.
The court sentenced five men to death and three to prison terms over the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, who was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, while seeking paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancée.
Mr. Khashoggi's remains have yet to be found, and the trial was shrouded in secrecy, with the kingdom never announcing the suspects' names and foreign diplomats sworn to secrecy.
Although no direct evidence has been made public implicating Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the killing, a CIA assessment found that he had probably known in advance about the operation and possibly ordered it.
