Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a team of Saudi agents. The killing was linked to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
On October 2, 2018, Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey to obtain papers for his upcoming marriage. He never came out.
Turkish intelligence determined that a 15-member team of Saudi agents, including a forensic doctor with a bone saw, had been dispatched to Istanbul. They killed Khashoggi within minutes of his entering the consulate and dismembered his body.
The CIA concluded with high confidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ordered the assassination. Saudi Arabia initially denied knowledge, then claimed it was a rogue operation, then admitted the killing.
Eight Saudi nationals were convicted in a Saudi court (five sentenced to death, later commuted to 20 years). The case was widely seen as a politically motivated assassination meant to silence a prominent critic of the Saudi regime.
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