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Suspect involved in murder of Saudi journalist Khashoggi arrested in France A suspect involved in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been arrested in France as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh, Reuters reported. A French police source also told Reuters that extradition proceedings to Turkey were set to begin. Reuters One of the suspected killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested at Roissy airport near Paris on Dec. 7 as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh, a police source and a judicial source said. The arrest came just days after French President Emmanuel Macron held face-to-face talks in Saudi Arabia with de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, becoming the first major Western leader to visit the kingdom since Khashoggi's murder. Khashoggi, a critic of Prince Mohammed, was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018. Turkish officials believe his body was dismembered and removed. His remains have not been found. The police source named the detainee as Khaled Aedh Al-Otaibi, a former Royal Guard of Saudi Arabia. Al-Otaibi, who is mentioned on a British UK sanction list as being involved in Khashoggi's murder, was also on a French wanted list. He was arrested on the basis of a warrant issued by Turkey in 2019, the police source told Reuters. French prosecutors will now begin proceedings for a potential extradition to Turkey. "He was involved in the unlawful killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul on 2 October 2018, as part of the 15 man team sent to Turkey by Saudi authorities," the report by Britain's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation said. Al-Otaibi, born in 1988, "was involved in the concealment of evidence at the Saudi General Consul's residence following the killing," that report said. A U.S. intelligence report released in March said Prince Mohammed had approved the operation to kill or capture Khashoggi. The Saudi government has denied any involvement by the crown prince and rejected the report's findings. France is one of Saudi Arabia's main arms suppliers, but it has faced pressure to review its sales because of the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen, now one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Macron last week rejected accusations that he was legitimising the crown prince, saying the region's many crises could not be dealt with by ignoring Saudi Arabia. The judicial source confirmed Al-Otaibi's arrest on the basis of a Turkish arrest warrant. Authorities were in the process of verifying his identity and it was too soon to say if and when an extradition could take place, the source said. It was unclear how or when Al-Otaibi arrived in France. The French Interior Ministry and the Saudi embassy in Paris declined to comment. The Saudi government media office CIC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Al-Otaibi's arrest was welcomed by Reporters Without Borders. "Excellent news that the French police did not turn a blind eye to the presence on the national territory of Khaled Al-Otaibi," the media watchdog's head, Christophe Deloire, said. "Finally a protagonist who can speak."
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युवराज सलमानमाथि अमेरिकाले औंला उठायो, साउदीले दियो यस्तो जवाफ पत्रकार जमाल खग्गोसीको हत्याको विषयमा अमेरिकी गुप्तचर रिपोर्टलाई साउदी अरबको सरकारले ठाडै अस्विकार गरेको छ । साउदी अरबको विदेश मन्त्रालयले यो विषयमा बयान जारी गरेको छ । यो बयानमा भनिएको छ, ‘साउदी सरकार जमाल खग्गोसीको मामिलामा अपमानजनक र गलत निष्कर्षसम्म पुगेको अमेरिकी रिपोर्टलाई ठाडो अस्विकार गर्दछ । हामी यो रिपोर्ट खारेज गर्दछौं । यो रिपोर्टमा गलत निष्कर्ष निकालिएको छ ।’ साउदी अरबको विदेश मन्त्रालयले भन्यो, ‘यो एक नकारात्मक र नक्कली रिपोर्ट हो । हामीले यो विषयमा पहिले नै भनिसकेका छौं कि यो एक संगीन अपराध थियो जसमा साउदी अरबको कानून मूल्यको उल्लंघन गरिएको छ । हाम्रो सरकारले यो मामिलाको अनुसन्धानको लागि कडा कदम उठाएका थिए ता कि न्याय मिलोस् । यसमा समावेश मानिसहरुलाई दोषी ठहर गरियो र अदालतले उनीहरुलाई सजाय पनि दिएको थियो । अदालतको सजायलाई जमाल खग्गोसीको परिवारले पनि स्वागत गरेको थियो । हामीले त्यो हरेक आवश्यक कदम उठाएका छौं जसले यस्तो अपराध पुनः नहोस् भनेर सुनिश्चित गर्न सकोस् ।’ साउदीको विदेश मन्त्रालयले भन्यो, ‘हामी ती हरेक कोसिस खारेज गर्दछौं जसले हाम्रो नेतृत्व, सम्प्रभुता र स्वतन्त्र न्यायिक व्यवस्थामा बाधा उत्पन्न गर्छ । अमेरिका र साउदी अरबबीचको साझेदारी पछिल्लो करिब आठ दशकदेखि बलियो रहँदै आएको छ । यो साझेदारी पारस्परिक आदर र हितमा आधारित छ । हामी यो इलाका र पूरा दुनियाँमा शान्ति स्थिरताका लागि काम गर्दछौं ।’ जमाल खग्गोसीको हत्या सन् २०१८ मा २० अक्टोबरमा भएको थियो । यो हत्या इस्तानबुलस्थित साउदी अरबको वाणिज्य दूतावास भित्र गरिएको थियो । यो मामिलामा साउदी प्रशासनले अनुसन्धानका लागि १८ जनालाई पक्राउ गरेको थियो । अघिल्लो महिना जमाल खग्गोसीका छोराले उनले आफ्ना पिताका सबै हत्यारालाई माफी दिएको बताएका थिए । डिसेम्बर सन् २०१९ मा साउदी अबरको एक अदालतले यो मामिलामा पाँचजनालाई मृत्युदण्डको सजाय सुनाएको थियो र अन्यलाई २४–२४ वर्षको कैद सजाय सुनाएको थियो । साउदी अरबको विदेश मन्त्रालयले अमेरिकाको गुप्तचर रिपोर्ट अफसोसजनक छ र यो रिपोर्ट गलत निष्कर्षमा पुगेको बताएको छ । मन्त्रालयले भनेको छ, ‘यो रिपोर्ट अफसोसजनक छ । यसमा केही पनि वास्तविकता छैन । पूर्ण रुपमा गलत निष्कर्ष निकालिएको छ । साउदी अरक यो संगीन अपराधको विषयमा निकै गम्भीर छ र यस्तो अपराध पुनः नहोस् भनेर अत्यधिक कोसिस गरिरहेको छ । हामी आफ्नो नेतृत्वको विषयमा कुनै पनि पूर्वाग्रह ठाडो अस्विकार गर्दछौं ।’ अमेरिकाको गुप्तचर विभागले साउदी अबरका युवराज सलमान बिन मोहम्मदले नै निर्वासनमा रहेका साउदी पत्रकार जमाल खग्गोसीको हत्याको मञ्जुरी दिएको जानकारी दिएको थियो । बाइडेन प्रशासनले शुक्रबार गुप्तचर रिपोर्ट जारी गर्दै साउदी युवराजले अमेरिकामा बसिरहेका साउदी पत्रकार जमाल खग्गोसीलाई जिउँदै पक्रने वा मार्ने निर्णयलाई सहमति दिएको बताइएको छ । अमेरिकाले पहिलो पटक खग्गोसीको हत्याको विषयमा सिधा रुपमा साउदी युवराजको नाम लिएको हो । कमेन्ट कमेन्ट गर्नुहोस् तपाईको ईमेल गोप्य राखिनेछ यो पनि पढौँ रातोपाटीको अंग्रेजी, हिन्दी र ग्लोबल संस्करणका साथै अनलाइन टिभी पनि सञ्चालित छ । एप्सबाट सिधै समाचार पढ्न एन्ड्रोइडका लागि यहाँ र आइफोनका लागि यहाँ क्लिक गर्नुहोस् । फेसबुक र ट्वीटरमार्फत पनि हामीसँग जोडिन सकिनेछ ।