LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five out of 11 suspects charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, his office said on Thursday, as the kingdom tries to overcome its biggest political crisis in a generation. Khashoggi, a royal insider turned critic of Saudi policy, was killed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH NEWSRANGERS)- – Turkish prosecutors have prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects from Saudi Arabia in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, authorities said on Friday, after President Tayyip Erdogan urged Riyadh to disclose who ordered the murder. Erdogan has in recent days stepped up pressure on Saudi Arabia to come clean…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has called the response to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi ”the worst cover-up” in history as the US announced it would sanction Saudi Arabian officials who are implicated in the death. Mr Trump was speaking hours after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed Riyadh’s efforts to blame Mr…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. President Donald Trump joined European leaders on Saturday in pushing Saudi Arabia for more answers about Jamal Khashoggi after Riyadh changed its story and acknowledged that the journalist died more than two weeks ago at its consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia said early on Saturday that Khashoggi, a critic of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time on Friday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the regime’s consulate in Turkey, claiming he got into a “fist fight” that cost him his life. The assessment by the Saudi attorney general was broadcast on state television. The broadcast also reported that five top…
LAGOS OCTOBER18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-New audio confirms that Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The Times cited Turkish media, which they said obtained the gruesome evidence. “They severed his fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded and dismembered him,” the paper…