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Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination was one of the century’s blackest farces

26 October 2019

9:00 AM

26 October 2019

9:00 AM

The story of Jamal Khashoggi’s death is well known. A prominent Saudi journalist, he walked into his nation’s consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 to obtain divorce papers permitting him to marry his fiancée Hatice Cengiz. Eighteen minutes later, he was drugged and then murdered by

a hit squad sent from Riyadh.

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