Daily Beast: A criminal case against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and others in the Saudi hierarchy has been filed in a German court for the brutal 2018 murder, dismemberment, and disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite the kingdom’s denial of MBS’ direct involvement and the Biden administration’s flaccid response to the killing.
#Germany's prosecutor general received a criminal complaint from media watchdog Reporters Without Borders against #SaudiArabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and several top officials over the death of #journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it said on Tuesday.https://t.co/LTg1X0fZwM
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) March 2, 2021
The complaint was filed in Germany because laws there can extend “universal jurisdiction” to some serious international crimes, even when the victims are not German. The case is bolstered by the recent conviction in a German court of a Syrian secret-service officer for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity for the torture of protesters at one of Bashar al-Assad’s prisons, according to The Guardian.
RSF, an important media freedom organization, filed a murder complaint with the German authorities against Saudi crown prince MBS using Germany’s universal jurisdiction statutes. This should get interesting https://t.co/r0ztLlEb6J
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) March 2, 2021
The 500-page complaint filed by the press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is the first time a criminal case has been lodged outside of what was largely considered a show trial in Saudi Arabia. That trial saw the conviction of eight people who were later pardoned after members of the Khashoggi family were said to have forgiven them.
“Reporters Without Borders has filed a criminal complaint in Germany accusing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other Saudi officials of committing crimes against humanity in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and the detention of 34 other journalists.” https://t.co/zsLsG7ajhL
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 2, 2021
The complaint in Germany was filed Monday with public prosecutors in the city of Karlsruhe, according to an RSF statement. The dossier outlines the arbitrary detention of 34 journalists and the brutal murder of Khashoggi to underscore what it calls the kingdom’s “widespread and systematic” persecution of the press.
A criminal case against Mohammed bin Salman and others in the Saudi hierarchy has been filed in a German court for the brutal 2018 murder, dismemberment and disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi https://t.co/QkIpPJuzB9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 2, 2021
The complaint in Germany was filed Monday with public prosecutors in the city of Karlsruhe, according to an RSF statement. The dossier outlines the arbitrary detention of 34 journalists and the brutal murder of Khashoggi to underscore what it calls the kingdom’s “widespread and systematic” persecution of the press. read more..pay wall..
Global media watchdog @RSF_inter has accused Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and several top officials of committing crimes against humanity in a criminal complaint filed in Germany https://t.co/RHqxHSyc0W
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 2, 2021
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Judging by the tens of thousands of migrant and refugee children who go missing in Germany each year, likely taken by the Ninth Circle, Germany itself needs investigation.
The only problem is, there is no ‘official’ world criminal court to do it that isn’t involved in a criminal enterprise itself.
The best thing ever created was Kevin Annett’s International Common Law Court, a Court which only myself and a few thousand other informed people have even heard of.
Look at this mess called Germany,
They even had to admit to 9,000 migrant kids going ‘missing’ back in 2016, before damage control moved in and covered everything up.
Ninth Circle can’t have any investigators complaining about child trafficking and sex abuse in Germany. Notice after these articles came out in 2016 nothing since.
The Ninth Circle probably infiltrated all the journalist outlets in Germany after this and used substantial bribery to shut them down.
https://www.dw.com/en/some-9000-refugee-children-reported-to-have-disappeared-in-germany/a-19509994
He was caught, and he could not punish his underlings or he would have lost any ability to maintain loyalties. His only option was Monarchal Arrogance by pardon.
The US back in the day, got the same thing, when we got caught blowing up a mosque, and since then, it seems we use a lot of Saudi’s for assassination and high risk terrorism.
No chance it wasn’t passed through the clown bus.