Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi Arabia sentences five to death for murder

Behind-closed-doors trial did not meet ‘required international standards’

Turkey claims to have video and audio evidence of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
Murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a prominent critic of the Saudi regime
(Image credit: MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images)

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018.

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