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Twenty Saudi nationals have actually gone on trial in absentia in Turkey over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
He was eliminated inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October2018
Those being attempted include two former top assistants to Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Khashoggi was a vocal critic of the prince. Saudi Arabia carried out a different trial over the killing that was heavily criticised as insufficient.
The trial in Istanbul follows an international outcry over the murder, which tarnished the prince’s track record.
Turkish district attorneys accuse the former deputy head of Saudi intelligence, Ahmed al-Asiri, and the royal court’s media consultant Saud al-Qahtani of having led the operation and advised a Saudi hit group.
The other 18 offenders are implicated of having actually suffocated Khashoggi, whose remains have not been discovered. Turkish officials say