The organization reporters without borders has asked Salman, the chief Federal Prosecutor for criminal charges against Saudi Arabia’s crown Prince Mohammed Bin. He was allegedly responsible for the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the imprisonment of more than thirty Saudi journalists, told the German section of Reporters sans frontières (RSF) on Tuesday. This is a crime against humanity. The display is also directed against four other high-ranking representatives of the Islamic-conservative Kingdom. The Federal government confirmed the Prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe the entrance to the criminal complaint.
“RSF calls on the attorney General to set up a formal investigation of these crimes to initiate”, – stated in the ad. The organization relies on the so-called principle of universal jurisdiction: the offender should nowhere find refuge. Thereafter, the office of the attorney General crime after 2002, which entered into force in international criminal law paper (VStGB).
Khashoggi, who lived in exile in the United States, was on 2. October 2018 at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by a special command from Riyadh been killed. His body is still missing today. According to a report published Friday by the American secret service, Bin Salman had approved the Operation to capture or killing Khashoggis. Saudi Arabia dismissed this as false.
