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PARIS (AFP) An NGO filed a case against a Saudi general in a Paris court on Friday, accusing him of being responsible for the torture of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, its lawyer said.
Khashoggi was tortured, killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after going there to get documents for his wedding.
The Gulf Centre for Human rights (GCHR) holds General Ahmad al-Assiri, a former intelligence official, responsible for the “physical and psychological abuse” that Khashoggi suffered just before his death, the NGO’s lawyer William Bourdon said.
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What’s Behind Biden’s High-Stakes Recalibration on Saudi Arabia?
If Mohammed bin Salman continues to hold sway in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. strategic reliance on the country remains unchanged, then encouraging Saudi Arabia to end its long-standing practice of human rights abuse is just empty talk.
U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East during the Trump administration is often criticized as having double standards. On the one hand, Trump abandoned the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, even though the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran was in full compliance with the JCPOA. On the other, Trump did not impose any punishment on Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, despite the open secret that the CIA concluded that he approved the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018. Although Joe Biden, the new U.S. president, at