London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Madrid’s José Luis Martínez-Almeida, New York’s Bill de Blasio, Berlin’s Michael Muller and Paris’s Anne Hidalgo are among the mayors who were asked to not attend Riyadh's Urban20 Summit
mayors of the world’s major cities to boycott the G20 SummitThe event will coincide with the second anniversary of the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
“The Saudi government has a long record of silencing the very voices that are necessary for a meaningful global conversation regarding the massive challenges we collectively face,” the statement wrote. Moreover, releasing prisoners of conscience, accountability for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and ending Saudi war in Yemen are in the demand list.
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