{"id":51843,"date":"2019-01-05T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T10:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=51843"},"modified":"2019-01-05T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T10:19:22","slug":"un-rights-office-says-saudi-trial-in-khashoggi-case-not-sufficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/un-rights-office-says-saudi-trial-in-khashoggi-case-not-sufficient\/","title":{"rendered":"UN rights office says Saudi trial in Khashoggi case &#8220;not sufficient&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations human rights office said on Friday that it could not assess the fairness of a trial taking place in Saudi Arabia related to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but that in any case it was &#8220;not sufficient&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani asked about reports that a Saudi prosecutor had sought the death sentence for five suspects linked to the Oct. 2 killing, reiterated the office&#8217;s call for an independent investigation &#8220;with international involvement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. rights office always opposed the death penalty, she added, as Saudi Arabian prosecutors seek the death penalty for five of the 11 suspects detained over the murder of Khashoggi, the state news agency said on Thursday, as a Saudi court held a first hearing on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi officials have rejected accusations that the crown prince ordered his murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, in which Khashoggi&#8217;s body was dismembered, removed from the building and handed over to an unidentified &#8220;local cooperator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations human rights office said on Friday that it could not assess the fairness of a trial taking place in Saudi Arabia related to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but that in any case it was &#8220;not sufficient&#8221;. Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani asked about reports that a Saudi prosecutor had sought the death [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51845,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843\/revisions\/51845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}