Twenty Saudi officials have gone on trial in absentia in Turkey over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Istanbul prosecutors accuse both the former deputy head of Saudi Arabia’s general intelligence Ahmed al-Asiri and former royal court adviser Saud al-Qahtani of instigating “premeditated murder with monstrous intent.”
The other 18 are accused of suffocating Khashoggi.
His fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, hopes that more information will come to light during the trial about his death and…
