A Saudi court has found eight people guilty of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi but the authorities have cleared two former advisers to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the journalist’s killing.
The court sentenced five people to death for the murder but ruled that Ahmed Assiri, deputy intelligence chief at the time of the killing, should be released because of insufficient evidence. Saud al-Qahtani, another former adviser to Prince Mohammed, was investigated but not charged because of a lack of evidence, said Shalaan al-Shalaan, deputy attorney-general.
Human rights groups immediately described the decision to exonerate Mr Assiri and Mr Qahtani as a “whitewash”.
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