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Mohammad bin Salman: Lawsuit against Saudi crown prince dismissed after Biden administration recommended he is given immunity | CNN Politics
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia’s crown prince after the Biden administration recommended he be granted immunity in the case brought against him by the fiancée of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Judge John Bates said in an opinion that despite his “uneasiness,” the US government told the DC District Court that Prince Mohammed bin Salman is immune since he also holds the title of prime minister and so he is “entitled to head of state immunity.”
That unease was not only due to the prince’s involvement in Khashoggi’s murder, the judge wrote, but also the timing of his appointment as prime minister of Saudi Arabia. Bin Salman, known as MBS, was only made prime minister – and therefore the technical head of the government – in late September in what observers saw as a ploy to secure head of government immunity in the lawsuit brought by Hatice Cengiz and Khashoggi’s advocacy group DAWN.
Bates noted the “suspicious timing” of the prince’s appointment and the plaintiffs’ argument that until now, only the king was the country’s prime minister.
“A contextualized look at the [Saudi] Royal Order thus suggests that it was not motivated by a desire for bin Salman to be the head of government, but instead to shield him from potential liability in this case,” Bates wrote.
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At the fourth anniversary of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul, Turkey was criticised for closing the murder case and handing the investigation to Saudi Arabia.
“Today is the anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on our land. They returned the file of this case to those [in Saudi Arabia] who slaughtered Khashoggi alive in Turkey … . We will not forget those who brought this shame to Turkey!,” Yunus Emre, a Turkish lawmaker with the main opposition Republican People’s Party, CHP wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancé, also shared her dismay. “He was killed in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul four years ago today. His killers are still free. We still don’t know where his body is,” Cengiz wrote on Twitter.
Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul when he visited the building to arrange his marriage papers in 2018.
Hanan El Khashoggi, the first wife of the murdered journalist, urged the Turkish authorities to hand over any evidence to her.
“The Turkish government has been clear that it does not intend to proceed with either the investigation into my husband’s murder or the trial. It should therefore hand over any evidence still in its hands to me. As the only wife of Jamal upon his death, I want all parties to be held accountable for my husband’s murder,” El Khashoggi wrote on Sunday in an opinion article in the UK Guardian.
Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a senior human rights activist and a lawmaker with pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, HDP, said that they will continue to protest over the Turkish government’s decision to hand the case over to Saudi Arabia.
“Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate and his file was given to the Saudi Arabian authorities – unbelievably. Liver was delivered to the cat – and we absolutely do not accept this, and will protest here every week,” Gergerlioglu said in the Turkish parliament on Friday.
Reporters Without Borders, RSF, also condemned the actions of both Turkey and Saudi Arabia and said such crimes against journalists should not be tolerated.
“Since Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination in 2018 and the subsequent botched trials of his killers in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, it has become clear that no accountability will be achieved in these countries,” the Middle East Desk at RSF said.
“Other prosecution and accountability mechanisms are more urgent than ever. This is why RSF is pursuing new avenues of legal recourse in other jurisdictions, to ensure justice for Khashoggi but also a clear signal that impunity for such heinous crimes against journalists will not be tolerated anywhere,” it added.
Turkey previously took a tougher stance on the Khashoggi case. But a change in tone came when Turkey wanted to repair relations with Saudi Arabia.
According to some observers, Saudi Arabia’s precondition for this improvement in ties was transfer of the Khashoggi case.
In 2019, a Saudi court sentenced five men to death and three to different prison terms for Khashoggi’s murder but the death sentences were later commuted to prison terms after Khashoggi’s son pardoned his father’s murderers.
Since the murder and international outcry, Saudi authorities have claimed that Khashoggi was killed by a rogue execution team without the knowledge of top Saudi officials – a claim dismissed by experts and human rights organisations.
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Virtual Library Opens Inside Minecraft To Share Banned News Stories
Reporters Without Borders has found an entirely new way of distributing banned journalism in some of the world's most repressive countries: Minecraft.
The advocacy group has opened an online space with a dedicated server for the game of video that is popularly known as The Uncensored Library. It is accessible to all of Minecraft's 145 million monthly gamers.
The library will include news stories that were not censored in the country of their origin and influenced by the neoclassical architectures of the past of Rome and Greece.
The Uncensored Library is a new virtual library in Minecraft, created in part by Reporters Without Borders to host the work of journalists who are banned or censored in their home countries
The library will contain stories from five countries that are near the bottom of Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. https://extrema.org/ These include Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam.
The stories will be published in English and in the language they were originally written in.
The stories' text cannot be altered or edited however anyone who has access to the Minecraft server hosting the library can read the stories.
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The project is supported by a number of prominent journalists who have had their work or that of someone they love censored. This includes Nguyen van Dai, a Vietnamese blogger, Yulia Berezovskaia, and Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of Jamal Khashoggi, the murdered journalist.
'In many countries around the globe, there's no free access to information and information,' Reporters Without Borders' Christian Mihr said in a statement on the organization's website.
"Websites are blocked, independent publications are banned and the state regulates the press." Young people aren't being able to formulate their own opinions.'
'By using Minecraft, the world's most popular computer game as an instrument, we grant players access to information from independent sources.'
To start with, the library will include the work of journalists who are banned in five countries, which include Egypt, Vietnam, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico
The library was designed by 16 people using 125 million blocks and inspired by the neoclassical architecture of ancient Rome and Greece
The library is currently backed by prominent journalists from around the world, including Vietnamese blogger Nguyen van Dai, Russian journalist Yulia Berezovskaia, and Hatice Cengiz, who was fiancee the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Reporters Without Borders joined forces with DDB German, BlockWorks design studio and Media Monks production company to create The Uncensored Library
The stories will be available in English in addition to the original language they were originally published in. The users are not able to alter or modify the text in any way.
The library's virtual opening was timed to coincide with World Day Against Cyber Censorship the annual celebration which was first observed in 2008 as a partnership between Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders.
The Library was built by 24 "builders" from 16 countries with 125,000,000 blocks. It is a massive central Rotunda that measures 984 feet in diameter.
The project was the result of a partnership between Reporters Without Borders, the creative agency DDB German, design studio BlockWorks and the production company Media Monks.
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rebeleden · 10 months
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Fiancée of Slain Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Rips PGA Merger With Saudi-Owned LIV Golf
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Biden Flip-Flops on Jamal Khashoggi
LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Nov. 17, 2022.--When Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents Oct. 2, 2018, the U.S. press condemned former President Donald Trump for not breaking off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom.  Two years later, President Joe Biden ran for president saying he would never recognize 38-year-old Crown Prince Monhammed bin Salman, the defacto leader of Saudi Arabia.  Trump’s approach was the only practical way to move forward with an old, reliable U.S. ally.  Yet Biden insisted through his 2020 campaign that Bin Salman was responsible for the death of Khashoggi.  Going one-eighty, the White House said today the their legal department thinks Bin Salman, as head of state, is protected with “sovereign immunity from lawsuits brought by Khashoggi’s former fiancée Hatice Cengiz and DAWN, a nonprofit organization dedicated to human and civil rights.
DAWN’s director Sarah Leah Whitson commented on the hypocritical move by the White House on Khashoggi’s death.  “It’s beyond ironic that President Biden has single-handedly assured MBS can escape accountability when it was President Biden who promised to the American people he would do everything to hold him accountable,” Whitson said.  U.S. journalists went ballistic Oct. 2, 2018 when Khashoggi walked into the Saudi embassy in Istanbul and never came out, al least in one piece.  Compelling evidence linked Khashoggi’s hit and disappearance to Bin Salman, knowing that nothing happens in the Kingdom without his approval.  “It’s impossible to read the Biden administration ‘s move today as anything more than a capitulation to Saudi pressure tactics, including slashing oil output to twist our arms to recognize  MBS’s fake immunity ploy,” Whitson said.
U.S. journalists and human rights groups don’t get that the wheels of U.S. industry don’t turn without fossil fuels.  Biden acquiesced for global back-slapping to take the U.S. off fossil fuels in the future.  Yet when U.S. consumers were sweating it out with skyrocketing gas prices, Biden knew he would pay a draconic price at the polls in the Midterm elections.  All the Democrat claptrap about how well Democrats did under Biden’s watch Nov. 8, they’ve maintained control of the U.S. Senate and lost the House of Representatives.  For Republicans to take the House, it was a clear rejection of Biden’s leadership, low approval ratings and a scary U.S. economy with escalating interest rates and slowed economic growth.  Democrats like to talk about Republican failures but who controls the House of Representative?  Republicans had to flip nearly 20 seats to retake the House.
Once Biden traveled over the summer July 15 to grovel in front of Bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, his Green New Deal backers led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex threw a fit.  Biden went to Bin Salman to ask him to increase oil exports to the U.S. to help offset record high pump prices.  Biden’s high hopes were dashed when Bin Salman, in consultation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other OPEC members, refused to increase production to keep crude oil prices high.  Once Biden realized his trip to the Kingdom backfired, he threatened to take unspecified actions against the Kingdom for refusing to increase oil exports to the U.S.  Biden’s latest move for immunity to Bin Salman shows campaign rhetoric, especially to the gung-ho liberal press, only goes so far in the real world.  Biden needs Saudi Arabia must the same what he needs Moscow to deal with global crises.
Biden’s White House was given a deadline today to stake out their positions of “sovereign immunity.”  Heads of state are not subject to lawsuits.  Unless White House lawyers can argue that Bin Salman is not the sovereign leader of Saudi Arabia, they have no legal standing for lawsuits.  Whitson wants to hold Biden’s feet to the fire but in reality “sovereign immunity” is practiced by heads of state around the globe.  But beyond giving Bin Salman sovereign immunity, it’s time for the U.S. press to stop prosecuting cases in the court of public opinion and accept limits of media influence.  Biden got to contrast himself in 2020 to former President Donald Trump, becoming an instant media darling to the U.S. press.  No U.S. print of broadcast outlet gives Trump any credit for anything other than turning the U.S. into a fascist state.  Biden tried to play that up before the Nov. 8 Midterm election.
Biden set the record straight today that he’s not going to alienate Bin Salman anymore than he has over the last two years.  When he asked Bin Salman to bump up Saudi oil production, Bin Salamn remembered all of Biden’s  insulting remarks, including holding him accountable for Khashoggi’s death.  Whether climate change advocates or the press likes it or not, there are limits to what a president can do to protect the U.S. economy.  Gutting the fracking industry after taking office, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, Biden wanted approval from his party’s climate change wing..  When it came to Bin Salman, Biden realized there’s no reason to alienate Saudi Arabia any more than possible. Already wrecking U.S.-Russian and U.S-Chinese relations, Biden realized he’s painted U.S. foreign policy into a corner.  Granting Bin Salman sovereign immunity should help mend fences.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
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Biden raises Khashoggi murder with Saudi prince
US President Joe Biden says he raised the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Mr Biden is in Saudi Arabia to rebuild relations, having previously promised to make the country a “pariah” over its human rights record. He said he had made it clear the killing in 2018 was “vitally important to me and the United States”. But he also said the two countries reached agreements on other issues. Mr Biden’s visit has been criticised as validating the Saudi government following the murder of the US-based Saudi dissident journalist Khashoggi in October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was accused by US intelligence agencies of approving the murder. The prince has always denied the allegations, and Saudi prosecutors blamed “rogue” Saudi agents. “With respect to the murder of Khashoggi, I raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what I thought of it at the time and what I think of it now,” Mr Biden said in a press briefing after Friday’s meeting. “I said very straightforwardly, ‘for an American president to be silent on an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are and who I am. I’ll always stand up for our values’.” Mr Biden said the crown prince claimed he was “not personally responsible” for the death, the Associated Press reported. “I indicated I thought he was,” the president said he replied. Prior to the meeting Mr Biden was pictured fist-bumping the crown prince, indicating an apparent warming of relations between the two countries. But Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, criticised the president’s actions. Tweeting a photo of the two men along with the words she imagined her fiancé would have said, she wrote: “Is this the accountability you promised for my murder? The blood of MBS’s next victim is on your hands.” Meanwhile, the publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, Fred Ryan, said “the fist bump between President Biden and Mohammed bin Salman was worse than a handshake – it was shameful. It projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivers to MBS the unwarranted redemption he has been desperately seeking.” Khashoggi was a columnist for the Washington Post. Aside from Khashoggi’s murder, President Biden said he and his Saudi counterpart had discussed energy and that he expected to see Saudi Arabia, a major oil producer, take “further steps” to stabilise the market in the coming weeks. Defending Mr Biden’s actions, US Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman told the BBC that Saudi Arabia increasing its supply of oil to the market would save lives. “The price of oil means people die in poor countries. It raises the price of food and fertiliser and it means people die by the hundreds of thousands, not just from starvation but also from the disease the malnourished tend to acquire,” he said. “So it’s very easy for Mrs Khashoggi can say ‘don’t worry about those hundreds of thousands of people who will die, avenge my fiance’. You’ve got to be adults here.” Mr Biden also announced Saudi Arabia would open its airspace to aircraft flying to and from Israel, which was previously banned. Read the full article
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Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée wants LIV golfers "banned" from some PGA Tour tourneys
Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée wants LIV golfers “banned” from some PGA Tour tourneys
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Turkey sends Jamal Khashoggi dossier to Saudi Arabia
Turkey sends Jamal Khashoggi dossier to Saudi Arabia
Hatice Cengiz, fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, outside the courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 7, 2022. MURAD SEZER / REUTERS Turkey got rid of the cumbersome Khashoggi file on Thursday, April 7, by sending it back to Saudi Arabia, more than three years after the tragic assassination of the Saudi journalist in Istanbul. Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of Jamal Khashoggi, who was…
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La Turquie envoie une affaire suspecte Jamal à l'Arabie saoudite
La Turquie envoie une affaire suspecte Jamal à l’Arabie saoudite
Hatice Cengiz, fiancée du journaliste saoudien assassiné Jamal Hashukaji, devant le tribunal, à Istanbul, Turquie, le 7 avril 2022. MURAD SEZER / Reuters La Turquie s’est débarrassée de la lourde affaire Hashukaji, jeudi 7 avril, en la renvoyant à l’Arabie saoudite, plus de trois ans après le tragique assassinat du journaliste saoudien à Istanbul. Hattis Changiz, la fiancée de Jamal Hashugi, qui…
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Cengiz fiancée of Khashoggi urges Biden to sanction, Prince Salman
Cengiz fiancée of Khashoggi urges Biden to sanction, Prince Salman
Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on the Biden administration to punish Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Continue reading
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THE DISSIDENT
THE DISSIDENT Director: Bryan Fogel Runtime: 1hr 59m   Cast: Hatice Cengiz, Jamal Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz, John O.Brennan, Fahrettin Altin, David Ignatius Synopsis: When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world were left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a…
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Meet the key figures behind the scenes, from a journalist-turned-lobbyist to an evangelical writer, in the effort to preserve the kingdom’s image after the killing.
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed - 10/09/2019
Saudi government officials killed Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi and then cut up his body with a bone saw, leaving his remains in a still unknown location, a little over a year ago. Their boss, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will soon host some of the richest and most powerful people in the world to talk about how great his country is at an event dubbed “Davos in the Desert,” and he can still count President Donald Trump as a friend, even after the CIA concluded that he likely ordered the murder. 
Despite global uproar last year, justice has been at best delayed in the Khashoggi case. “Though little progress has been made until now, it does not have to remain this way,” Khashoggi’s fiancée at the time of his death, Hatice Cengiz, wrote in the Post in late September. “I continue to hope the United States decides to stand for what is right. In the meantime, I will continue seeking justice for Jamal — and hope that people and governments the world over will join me in my quest.”
Saudi Arabia and its de facto ruler, the prince colloquially known as MBS, have used that borrowed time to shore up their image on the world stage. High-profile backing from Trump has helped.
But it’s the less flashy work that has counted even more. It’s people like the ones below ― let’s call them the Saudi Seven ― who Cengiz and human rights groups will have to confront if there’s any hope for accountability. Khashoggi’s murder “goes beyond religion, language or geography,” she wrote. “It is a matter of humanity.” These are the people who have made it possible so far for Saudi Arabia to remain a member of the international community in relatively good standing — instead of a government shunned for the brutal murder, within another country’s borders, of a citizen who sought refuge abroad.
The Lobbyist: Brad Klapper, At Qorvis
On April 18, 2018, Brad Klapper ended a career of more than a decade in journalism and became a paid agent for the government of Saudi Arabia.
Klapper left his job as a national security editor at The Associated Press to become a senior vice president for media relations at the lobbying firm Qorvis, which the Saudis hired after 15 of their citizens helped to kill more than 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001. Within months, Klapper was helping the Saudis respond to their biggest public relations problem since the 9/11 attacks: the murder of a fellow journalist, Khashoggi.
Qorvis is likely the most important node in Saudi Arabia’s sprawling network of influence in the United States. The firm stuck with the kingdom even as, particularly following the Khashoggi killing, similar companies have said they will no longer represent Riyadh, and it’s been rewarded for it. The company earned close to $19 million from the Saudis in the six months after the murder, an amount lobbying expert Ben Freeman of the Center for International Policy said is more than half of what the Saudis normally spend across all their agents in a whole year. Qorvis also gained three new contracts linked to Saudi government money in the spring of 2019.
At a challenging time for the company and its client, Klapper is a rare and valuable asset: Someone who influential journalists, lawmakers and government officials know from long experience, which makes them likely to treat outreach from him differently than that from other Saudi mouthpieces. He spent 13 years at the outlet that revealed the Saudis ― and Qorvis ― were secretly paying U.S. veterans to lobby against a bill supported by the families of 9/11 victims, after all.
“The Saudis have amassed quite the collection of folks who’ve gone through the revolving door in all the places of power in D.C.,” Freeman said. “Having folks like that on your payroll really opens a lot of doors that wouldn’t be open for the Saudis and can really transcend having a toxic reputation which I think the Saudis do now.”
Former elected officials seeking roles like Klapper’s have to wait one year before they can lobby their erstwhile colleagues, a period during which the relationship can adjust to a new normal. There aren’t similar regulations for the press ― though the ethical dilemmas for reporters leaving the industry are clear, especially when it comes to working for a client accused of orchestrating the murder of a Washington Post employee.
“If you’re a journalist and you’re seen as somebody who’s working for a reputable outlet and doing objective work and you cross over to work for a foreign dictatorship doing work that is not objective, I think it’s worth having a cooling-off period so people know what you’re doing: this is somebody who’s working to push a Saudi agenda,” Freeman said.
Klapper and Qorvis did not respond to requests for comment.
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7 Men Made Sure That Didn't Happen.
The Lobbyist: Brad Klapper, At Qorvis
The Banker: John Flint, Formerly At HSBC
The Evangelical: Joel Rosenberg, Author
The Spin Doctor: Mohammed Khalid Alyahya, Editor-In-Chief Of Al Arabiya English
The Consultant: Horacio Rozanski, President And CEO Of Booz Allen Hamilton
The Ally: Xi Jinping, President Of China
The Politician: Mitch McConnell, Senator From Kentucky
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Khashoggi’s Fiancée Seeks Answers and Justice: ‘It Is a Moral Duty’
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By CARLOTTA GALL Hatice Cengiz was preparing to marry the Saudi dissident when he was murdered in Istanbul. Six months later, she is fighting to keep his case in the public eye. Published: May 3, 2019 at 01:00AM from NYT World https://nyti.ms/2LkumOI
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The fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says she has declined an invitation to the White House by US President Donald Trump accusing him of not being sincere about investigating the killing.
Hatice Cengiz told Turkish TV she thought the invitation was aimed at influencing public opinion in the US.
Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul three weeks ago.
Riyadh denies the ruling royal family was involved and blames "rogue agents".
Saudi Arabia initially denied all knowledge of the journalist's fate.
In a New York Times column earlier this month, Ms Cengiz said that if Mr Trump made "a genuine contribution to the efforts to reveal what happened inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that day, I will consider accepting his invitation".
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