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Khashoggi’s fiancée calls for an international investigation

The Turkish fiancée of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi insists on the urgent need for an international investigation into his murder amid evidence of high-level Saudi involvement.

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20 Oct 2018
Saudi Arabia says preliminary results of an investigation show Saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi is dead, and that 18 Saudi nationals have been arrested.
3 Jan 2019
The suspects charged with killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi have appeared in court. His murder in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul threw the kingdom into turmoil, with many suspecting high-level involvement.
2 Apr 2019
Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz: 'I want to know who gave the order to kill Jamal'.
19 Jun 2019
Earlier this year, the UN said that Khashoggi was "the victim of a brutal and premeditated" murder, "planned and perpetrated" by Saudi officials. The journalist was allegedly strangled in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
25 Jun 2019
The Turkish fiancée of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi insists on the urgent need for an international investigation into his murder amid evidence of high-level Saudi involvement.
14 Sep 2019
Riyadh initially offered multiple accounts about Khashoggi's disappearance, but later said the journalist was killed by rogue officials inside it consulate. The UN blames Saudi officials for his "premeditated" murder.
22 May 2020
The sons of the murdered Saudi journalist say the family pardons those who were involved in their father's murder. The declaration could spare the lives of five convicted people sentenced to death.
3 Jun 2020
In May, the elder son of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi declared that his family had "forgiven" those responsible for the killing of their father in October 2018. The announcement would give legal reprieve to the five Saudi government agents who have been sentenced to death for the brutal murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. But Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz has since renounced that statement.
21 Oct 2020
Hatice Cengiz and US-based group DAWN have filed a civil suit, pursuing the Saudi prince and 28 others for damages. Khashoggi was murdered two years ago when he entered the Saudi consulate to obtain marriage papers.
1 Mar 2021
Hanan El Atr, an Egyptian woman who said she married Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi months before he was killed, told DW she had come forward to deliver his message.
4 Mar 2021
In an interview with FRANCE 24, the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hailed the recent decision by the Biden administration to declassify an intelligence assessment of her fiancé's shocking 2018 murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. But Hatice Cengiz called on Washington to go beyond words and enforce "sanctions" or other "actions" against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
20 Nov 2022
It has been more than four years since journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Since then, his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, has been fighting to bring his killers to justice. This week she took her campaign to Berlin.