An Istanbul court began this Friday, July 3, to try in absentia 20 Saudis, including two close to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, accused by the Turkish authorities of having killed and dismembered the editorialist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
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Among these 20 people accused of " deliberate premeditated homicide with the intention of inflicting suffering ", two are identified by Turkish investigators as the sponsors: an ex-adviser to the crown prince, Saud al-Qahtani, and a former number two from Intelligence, General Ahmed al-Assiri.