The court sessions are closed, and every detail, including the identities of the defendants, is a matter of speculation.
By Kareem Fahim Kareem Fahim Istanbul bureau chief covering the Middle East Email Bio Follow April 1 at 5:40 PM After Saudi Arabia acknowledged last year that its agents had killed and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi, the kingdom vowed to prosecute the culprits. The Saudi authorities, as promised, have indeed put on a trial.
U.S. and Western intelligence officials have stood by their assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the operation that ended in Khashoggi’s death. But no single piece of evidence definitively linking the prince to the crime has emerged in the past six months, officials said. The defendants are said to include two of the most prominent members of the “kill squad” allegedly sent to confront Khashoggi in the Istanbul consulate: Maher Mutreb, the leader of the squad, and Salah al-Tubaigy, an autopsy specialist who is believed to have dismembered Khashoggi’s body. At least one high-ranking Saudi official, Ahmed al-Assiri, is also a defendant, according to Reuters.
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