State Department 'Khashoggi ban' restricts visas for those who target journalists, activists

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The announcement follows a U.S. intelligence report saying that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The State Department on Friday announced a new policy, the"Khashoggi ban," that will allow the U.S. to impose visa restrictions on individuals who target journalists and dissidents on behalf of foreign governments.

that"under U.S. law, individual visa records are confidential, and we cannot provide details as to who is or will be included in the Khashoggi ban. "Since 2017, the Crown Prince has had absolute control of the Kingdom's security and intelligence organizations, making it highly unlikely that Saudi officials would have carried out an operation of this nature without the Crown Prince's authorization," the report said., was killed and dismembered after entering a Saudi consulate in Turkey in October 2018. It is still not known what happened to his remains.

 

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