The trial has been criticized as no official or anyone suspected of ordering the killing was found guilty.
Khashoggi was close to the Saudi royal family for decades and served as an adviser to the government before the relationship soured and he moved to the U.S. in 2017 in self-imposed exile. From America, Khashoggi wrote columns forin which he was heavily critical of the Crown Prince.
United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard in a 2019 critique of the trial. “That is the antithesis of justice.”
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