The US Open Society Justice Initiative said it has filed a lawsuit to compel the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to reveal its assessment of the identity of the person responsible for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The rights group said the records were necessary to assess the US government's response to the Khashoggi killing.
She indicated that the lawsuit relates to another case pending in a New York court, against the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department, regarding the failure to disclose records related to Khashoggi's murder.
The attorney at the Open Society Justice Initiative, Amrit Singh, said that they want an investigation into the horrific murder of Jamal Khashoggi, because although two years have passed since his murder, there has not yet been a fair trial for his murderers.
She added - in statements to Al Jazeera - we want to shed light on who ordered the execution of this crime, and if Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in this crime, he must be held accountable.
Regarding the chances of the case, Singh confirmed that the Freedom of Information Act allows this information and recordings to be made available to the public, noting that there are calls under the dome of Parliament from representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties demanding the provision of this information.
In response to a question: What will result from your disclosure of the name of the person responsible for killing Khashoggi? She answered: At the very least, the American people should know what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, because he lived in the United States and was a columnist for the Washington Post, an American newspaper.
The main suspect
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Agnes Callamard, said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was the "main suspect" in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
In an interview with Anadolu Agency in Geneva, Switzerland, Kalmar described the trial in absentia that the Turkish judiciary started a few days ago for the 20 defendants who fled in the case as "the most important and fair."
On July 3, the first session of the Turkish judiciary to try those accused of Khashoggi's murder began inside his country's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018.
The indictment prepared by the Turkish prosecution includes 20 Saudi suspects, most notably the former deputy head of Saudi intelligence Ahmed Asiri, the former advisor to Crown Prince Saud al-Qahtani, the forensic expert Muhammad al-Tubaigy, and Mustafa Muhammad al-Madani, who wore Khashoggi's clothes and left the Saudi consulate to claim that Khashoggi left the consulate. .
About this trial, Callamard said: "The defendants are being tried in absentia, and we were all aware that Saudi Arabia will not allow the extradition of the accused to Turkey, but I think that this trial is important, and I would like to emphasize that the defendants are represented by lawyers appointed by the state, and this is a good thing."
Khashoggi was killed on October 2, 2018, inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, in a case that shook international public opinion.
After 18 days of denial, during which Saudi Arabia provided conflicting explanations for the incident, Riyadh announced that Khashoggi had been killed following a "fight with Saudis," and 18 citizens were arrested as part of the investigations, without revealing the location of the body.
In the summer of 2019, a UN report prepared by Callamard documented the initial involvement of Muhammad bin Salman in the case, indicating that there is evidence of this that needs further investigation.
In December of the same year, a Saudi court issued a preliminary sentence to death 5 people (it did not name) out of 11 accused, and punished 3 of them with varying prison terms totaling 24 years, and 3 others (of the senior officials) were acquitted for not being proven. Their conviction, judgments that Callamard earlier considered "ridiculous".