RIYADH – Jamal Khashoggi’s son has come face-to-face with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on the day his father’s body parts were reportedly discovered.
It also comes hours after horrific details emerged claiming murdered Khashoggi’s face had been “disfigured”, according to Sky News sources.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with both Khashoggi’s son Salah and his brother Sahel in Riyadh on Tuesday, the state-run news agency SPA reported.
Pictures of the cynical photo-op quickly appeared online, showing an uncomfortable and unhappy looking Salah bin Jamal Khashoggi shaking hands with the Saudi crown prince as a guard looked on in the background.
Salah has reportedly been banned from leaving Saudi Arabia for the past year. Global Opinions editor for the Washington Post Karen Attiah said that in her conversations with Khashoggi (a contributor to the paper), he had been “most upset” that Riyadh had imposed travel bans on his children in order to “put pressure on him” over his critical writings.
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The meeting took place as unconfirmed reports were emerging that Khashoggi’s body parts had been found in the garden of the Saudi consul general’s home nearby the consulate where the journalist was murdered.
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Meanwhile, CIA director Gina Haspel has travelled to Turkey to assist the ongoing investigation into Khashoggi’s death, but her presence has sparked speculation that she will attempt to convince Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to release information which would implicate the Saudi crown prince, a US ally, in the journalist’s murder.
