A human rights group stated it filed a authorized criticism with a Paris courtroom on Thursday alleging complicity by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince – who’s visiting France – within the ugly 2018 killing of U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Washington-based group, Democracy for the Arab World Now, or DAWN, referred to as on French authorities to open a prison investigation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was scheduled to satisfy French President Emmanuel Macron for a working dinner later Thursday.
In a press release on its web site, the group stated it filed a 42-page criticism arguing that the prince was an confederate to the torture of Khashoggi within the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018 and his disappearance.
DAWN focuses on human rights violations in Gulf Arab autocracies, together with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
It stated two different rights teams backed its name for a French investigation and argued that the prince mustn’t have immunity from prosecution as a result of he isn’t the Saudi head of state.
“As a party to the U.N. Conventions against torture and enforced disappearances, France is obliged to investigate a suspect such as Bin Salman if he is present on French territory,” Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN’s govt director, stated within the assertion.
