Saudi Journalist Killed, Dismembered at Consulate in Istanbul
TEHRAN (Basirat) – Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the consulate building, an informed source said.
According to the Arabic-language Al-Khaleej Al-Jadid news
website, citing the informed source, Khashoggi was tortured to death during
interrogation inside the consulate.
A Turkish security source also told Reuters on Saturday that a group of 15 Saudi
nationals, including some officials, arrived in Turkey onboard two planes on the
same day of Khashoggi’s disappearance.
The source said the team was at the consulate that same day and later left
Turkey for Saudi Arabia.
Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency also said in a report that the 15 Saudi
nationals had been at the consulate for a brief period last Tuesday.
The source further said that the interrogators later dismembered his body and
the Saudi nationals took interrogation video with themselves to brief Saudi
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his death, the source said.
Two Turkish sources also confirmed Khashoggi’s death, stressing he was killed
inside the consulate.
Khashoggi, an outspoken critic of the Saudi government, had been living in self-imposed exile in the United States since 2017, when Saudi authorities launched a massive crackdown on the dissent. He was seeking to secure documentation for his forthcoming marriage when he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. His fiancée waited outside the consulate for hours without hearing from him.
Source: Tasnim
