Hatice Cengiz, the girlfriend of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist, writer and dissident …
Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, flew to Washington to protest and remind President Joe Biden of his “promise of justice” on the third anniversary of the murder.
The Turkish researcher participated in a protest with several human rights NGOs in front of the Riyadh embassy and a candlelight vigil in front of the Capitol. “Msb – said Cengiz, referring to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and rhetorically addressing the US president – took Jamal away from me and the whole world.
What are you going to do? Are you going to impeach him, or are you going to let these murderers get away with it?”
Cengiz expressed his disappointment that only a few days ago, Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Riyadh’s crown prince, identified by U.S. intelligence services as the instigator of Khashoggi’s murder, to discuss the conflict in Yemen. “Is this the justice that Biden promised?” wondered the woman with whom Khashoggi, in self-exile in the United States, was to be married. Cengiz at the vigil unfurled a large portrait of the Saudi dissident composed of newspaper clippings.
The protests in Washington were also attended by the sister of Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, a Red Crescent aid worker who was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison for criticizing the Saudi crown through an anonymous Twitter account. “My brother,” said Areej al-Sadhan, “was tortured so brutally that he almost died. They broke his hand and crushed his fingers, telling him ‘Is this the hand you tweet with?'”
