Consulate worker told to 'light up the oven' after Khashoggi's murder

Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi, talks to members of the media outside a court in Istanbul on Friday.

Demir said he had been called to the consul’s residence after Khashoggi entered the nearby consulate to seek his papers. The indictment accuses two top Saudi officials, former deputy head of Saudi Arabia’s general intelligence Ahmed al-Asiri and former royal court adviser Saud al-Qahtani, of instigating “premeditated murder with monstrous intent”.

In December a Saudi court sentenced five people to death and three to jail for the killing, but Khashoggi’s family later said they forgave his murderers, effectively granting them a formal reprieve under Saudi law. Separate witness testimony in the indictment, from the consul’s driver, said the consul had ordered raw kebabs to be bought from a local restaurant.

“If the process works, what this trial …will strengthen is the possibility of universal jurisdiction,” Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, told Reuters on the eve of the trial.

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