A total of eight people have been convicted of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Five of them are sentenced to 20 years in prison and three others to between seven and ten years in prison.

Earlier, five people were convicted of the murder of the journalist.

In May, Khashoggi's family publicly forgave the killers, which allowed the regime to pardon the convicts.

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The fall of Jamal Khashoggi in 60 seconds.

On October 2, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get all the paperwork ready to be able to marry his Turkish fiancée.

But Khashoggi never left the consulate alive.

Jamal Khashoggi lived in the United States where he worked as a columnist for the American newspaper Washington Post.

He was an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and had fled the country in September 2017.

Among other things, Khashoggi criticized Saudi Arabia's involvement in the war in Yemen.

A UN report presented by investigator Agnés Callamard found "credible evidence" that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had links to Khashoggi's assassination.

The Crown Prince has completely denied that he had ordered the murder of the journalist.