The Turkish government ended its own trial in absentia against 26 of those involved in the murder, following a rapprochement between the Turkish and Saudi governments.
Since the murder, the Saudi government, under international pressure, conducted a secret trial for the murder imposing fictional punishments on eight low-level Saudi agents, attempting to portray the crime as a rogue operation. Khashoggi's stand for freedom of the press in front of the Saudi Consulate." The designation of Jamal Khashoggi Way fulfills one of the Special Rapporteur report 's recommendations calling for the erection of "a memorial to Mr. Tawakkol Karman CAIR Executive Director and DAWN's Board Chair Nihad Awad DAWN's Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson DAWN's Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar and, the fiancee of the late Jamal Khashoggi, Hatice Cengiz.Īs detailed in the Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur investigating the murder of Khashoggi, Saudi government agents acting under the orders of MBS kidnapped, tortured, and killed Khashoggi on October 2, 2018, at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, after Prince Khalid bin Salman, Saudi Vice Minister of Defense and former Saudi ambassador to the U.S., lured him there on false pretenses.Ĭrown Prince MBS sought to silence Khashoggi, a leading advocate of reform, who had only four months before he founded DAWN to defend human rights and promote democracy for Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world.
Speakers at the unveiling ceremony included: Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton Congresswoman Betty McCollum Congressman Gerry Connolly Congressman Adam Schiff Council Councilwoman Brooke Pinto Nobel Prize Winner and DAWN Board Member Ms. The street designation was made pursuant to the Jamal Khashoggi Way Designation Act, passed unanimously by the D.C. Watch Congressman Adam Schiff's video message about the unveiling of Jamal Khashoggi Way, here. Watch Congresswoman Betty McCollum's video message about the unveiling of Jamal Khashoggi Way, here. Watch Hatice Cengiz's video message about the unveiling of Jamal Khashoggi Way, here. "Murdered on the orders of MBS, Khashoggi paid the ultimate price for his activism, but his message and his vision of democratic reform live on through the work of DAWN and the countless other activists and dissidents inspired by his example and his bravery." "Renaming the street in front of the Saudi embassy Jamal Khashoggi Way honors the courage and sacrifice of a man who stood up to the tyranny of a brutal dictator and will remind the Saudi government every hour of every day that we hold it responsible for his horrible murder," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), the human rights organization founded by Khashoggi only months before his murder. In the wake of the White House's disturbing announcement that President Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia in July to meet with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS), DAWN reiterated its calls to the Biden administration to fulfill its promises to hold the Saudi government accountable for the murder and end weapons sales to the country, as well as to defend Saudi political activists at home and abroad who remain subject to repression and attacks by the Saudi government. resident Jamal Khashoggi and a call for continued action to demand accountability against his murderers, said Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) today at the commemoration event the group organized at the sign's unveiling, together with representatives from leading civil society organizations and the U.S. is a living memorial to the former Saudi activist, journalist and Washington, D.C. June 15, 2022) – The new street sign for "Jamal Khashoggi Way" directly in front of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C.