Saudi Arabia has reportedly rejected on Sunday western calls to internationalize the ongoing trial over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Saudi Press Agency and Al Arabiya news channel reported that the head of Riad’s Human Rights Commission, Bandar al-Aiban, confirmed the accused of the assassination are standing trial, and they have attended three hearings accompanied by their defense attorneys.
Al-Aiban expressed he was horrified over what happened to Khashoggi, describing it as an appalling crime and misfortune accident.
The Saudi Kingdom has rejected calls for internationalizing the trial, considering such calls interference in its internal affairs, he said. His statements follow calls by western countries, including the 28 member states of the European Union, to help investigate the case.
Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi monarchy and a columnist for the US newspaper The Washington Post was murdered by Saudi agents on October 2, 2018, at a Consulate of Riad in Istanbul, Turkey.
The public attorney office of Saudi Arabia said it had accused and taken to trial 11 people charged with crime, and asked the death sentence for five of them.
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