China News Service, September 8th, a comprehensive report, on the afternoon of the 7th local time, a Saudi court announced the final verdict of the murder of the Saudi journalist Khashoggi. The 8 persons involved were sentenced to 7 to 20 years in prison.
Five of them were sentenced to death in 2019, but the sentence exempted them from the death penalty.
According to reports, a prosecutor’s spokesperson pointed out that five of them were sentenced to 20 years in prison, one was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and two were sentenced to 7 years in prison.
The court announcement also pointed out that this decision means that all criminal prosecutions and private prosecutions in the Kashuji case will be terminated.
According to reports, in December 2019, five people were sentenced to death for directly participating in the murder process.
But in May 2020, Salah Kashuji, the son of the victim Kashuji, issued a statement on behalf of his family, saying that he forgave the murderer of his father and expressed his "full trust in the Saudi judicial system."
Data map: On October 2, 2018, a screenshot of the video of Khashoggi entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
According to Saudi law, if the families of murder victims forgive the killer, they have a chance to be exempt from the death penalty.
Salah's above statement allowed the murderer's death penalty to be pardoned.
The prosecutor pointed out that this time, after considering the pardon rights of Kashuji's family, the sentence was re-sentenced.
According to previous reports, Kashuji contributed to the Washington Post and many other media before his death. He was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2018.
On November 15, 2018, the Saudi prosecutors announced the prosecution of 11 suspects.
In December 2019, the Riyadh Criminal Court sentenced five men directly involved in the murder of Khashoggi to death, three were sentenced to 24 years in prison for their involvement in the case, and three others were acquitted.