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Khashoggi's fiancée says 'no one has right' to pardon killers
"His ambush and heinous murder does not have a statute of limitations and no one has the right to pardon his killers. I and others will not stop until we get #JusticeForJamal," Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz tweeted.
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In this file photo taken on December 15, 2014 , Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi attends a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama. Saudi Arabia's attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Jan. 3, 2019. The Washington Post columnist's son Salah Khashoggi tweeted earlier Friday that the sons "forgive and pardon those who killed our father" during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting which ends this weekend.
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he Turkish fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday "no one" had the right to pardon his murderers after his sons said they "forgive" the killers.
Khashoggi -- a royal family insider turned critic -- was killed and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was accused of ordering the killing but the kingdom has strongly denied this.
"His ambush and heinous murder does not have a statute of limitations and no one has the right to pardon his killers. I and others will not stop until we get #JusticeForJamal," Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz tweeted.
"The killers came from Saudi with premeditation to lure, ambush & kill him... We will not pardon the killers nor those who ordered the killing," she added.
Jamal was killed inside his country's consulate while getting the docs to complete our marriage. The killers came from Saudi with premeditation to lure, ambush & kill him. Nobody has the right to pardon the killers. We will not pardon the killers nor those who ordered the killing
— Hatice Cengiz / خديجة (@mercan_resifi) May 22, 2020
Cengiz was responding to the Washington Post columnist's son Salah Khashoggi who tweeted earlier Friday that the sons "forgive and pardon those who killed our father" during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting which ends this weekend.
Analysts believe the announcement could spare the lives of five unnamed people sentenced to death over the murder in a December court ruling.
Turkish officials say Khashoggi, 59, was strangled and his body was cut into pieces by a 15-man Saudi group inside the kingdom's mission. His remains have never been found.
