(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 18 - "Jamal died today a second time": thus Hatice Cengiz, the ex-girlfriend of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed in Istanbul by Saudi agents, commented on Twitter on the Bidendi administration's decision to grant the immunity to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as head of a foreign government, in the lawsuit you filed over the reporter's murder.
“No one expected such a decision.
We thought maybe there would be a light in US justice. But again the money comes first,” she wrote.
"Biden is aware of this legal process but it was a decision by the State Department, which made a request to the Justice Department", meanwhile clarified the spokesman of the American National Security Council, John Kirby, in a virtual briefing with the press , on the question of the immunity of the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of the journalist and activist Jamal Khashoggi, killed in 2018 in the Riyadh consulate in Istanbul.
"This is a legal decision made by the State Department based on long-standing and well-established principles of customary international law and has nothing to do with the merits of the case," the spokesperson said.
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