Khadija Genghis, the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said that no one has the right to pardon his murder, while the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings described Anais Kalamar as "a farce."
"The disgraceful murder of him will not be lapsed by statute of limitations, and no one has the right to pardon his murder. I and everyone who seeks justice for Jamal will continue until we achieve our goal," Genghis wrote on Twitter.
"The killers came from Saudi Arabia in advance, and the killing is a means, and no one has the right to pardon. We will not pardon, neither for the killers nor for those who ordered his killing."
Genghis made the comments, commenting on the publication of Khashoggi's son, Salah, in a tweet on his account on "Twitter" at dawn Friday, a short statement saying, "We announce the sons of the martyr Jamal Khashoggi that we are pardoned for killing our father."
Analysts believe that this declaration would spare five persons whose identities were not revealed and who were sentenced to death in December in Saudi Arabia, to apply the penalty against them.
Turkey says that Khashoggi, who was publishing articles in the American newspaper "Washington Post", was suffocated and then beheaded by a group of 15 Saudis inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018. His body was never found.
farce
On the other hand, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Anis Kalamar, said that the Khashoggi family's announcement of forgiving the killers was shocking, describing it as a "farce."
Kalamar added that all those who spoke of Khashoggi's heinous execution, and the absence of accountability for his death, expected that.
She said, "The Saudi authorities are betting on what they hope will be the last chapter in the context of its judicial farce in front of an international community prepared too much to be fooled," considering that the amnesty of Khashoggi's sons is "a new chapter in the farce."
It again called on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to take action. She asked him to open a "investigative investigation" centered on "the chain of command and related individual responsibilities, including the highest levels of the state."
She made it clear that the killers and their leaders must be tried, and that the serious consequences of such a crime go far beyond the authority of a Saudi court.
Kalamar said that there are other paths to justice that must be followed, including those that address systemic problems such as the Khashoggi killing and the impunity of the Saudi regime.
At the end of June 2019, the French expert confirmed that she had gathered enough "credible evidence" that would allow the opening of an international investigation into the Khashoggi case in order to determine the responsibilities of the highest Saudi officials in this crime, including Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, and requested the Secretary-General of the United Nations United launch this trial.
This is a statement from a number of politicians and activists, we renew, remember and explain to those who are neither politically nor legally aware:
the killing case # Jamal Khashoggi is not a family issue, it is not a mistake to kill in a natural context!
No one killed him because of a personal situation, and his family interfered!
It is a crime of authorities. The authorities killed him because of his political work. His case is political, so keep silent! https://t.co/ok7yeJgHkm
- Yahya Assiri Yahya Assiri # Muqsitoon (@ abo1fares) May 21, 2020
He denied my rights
For his part, Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said that the Saudi crown prince's strategy is to pressure Khashoggi's son to forgive his father's killers.
He added that it aims to let the world forget the identity of the person who ordered this heinous crime, as he put it.
For his part, the head of the human rights organization Al-Qastah Yahya Asiri described the case of Khashoggi’s murder as not a family or personal issue, and it did not happen by mistake.
In a tweet on his Twitter account, Asiri re-published a previous statement by a number of politicians and activists on the Khashoggi case in which they had confirmed that the Saudi journalist had been killed because of his political work and that his case was political.
Saudi Supreme Court Decision No. 9 / M dated 3/25/1435 AH regarding what kills the crime and its punishment, and that its owner kills the limit of spawning, and it is not permissible to pardon, and the general right in it overrides the private right. pic.twitter.com/hOfmxfdQN1
Principles of Judiciary (@mabadea2) May 25, 2018
Kill yields
Activists and opponents recalled the Saudi Supreme Court's decision No. 9 / M dated 3/25/1435 AH, which stipulates what is the killing of murder and its punishment, and that its owner is killed with the limit of spear, and it is not permissible to pardon, and the general right in it overrides the private right.
They pointed to previous decisions issued by the Minister of Justice and the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, that "the murderer is a means of killing an end rather than a punishment, and the pardon is not accepted and he is prejudicial to the private right."
The activists published a previous judicial circular to all courts on the ruling mechanism for the killing of Ghila.
The circular says that “based on the Supreme Court’s decision that the General Court of the Court examined the issue of murder, the issue, and what happened around it, whether it is a type of spoilage, killing killing is what was intentionally aggressive in the face of the trick and deception that secures the murderer’s assassination, Whether it is for money or for violating an offer or fear a scandal and divulging its secret or so, it is a kind of spearhead. "
And published definitions of what is meant by killing the "gossip", which is that the murderer deceived, deceived, and lured him, and that the killed person was completely confident in the killer.
They also drew attention to the fact that the Saudi prosecution’s adaptation of the case from its inception in the context of retribution suggested the direction of the path of pardon by the family.